Chen Xiaomu walked out of the palace angrily, and Wei Yushang led several people to greet him. Seeing that he was the only one coming out of the palace, he opened his mouth and asked, "Teacher, why didn't dad come out with you?"
Chen Xiaomu said angrily: "Teachers are now considered to be the general magistrates of the Xinjing Prefecture. Their official positions are not as high as yours. How dare you interfere in the Prime Minister's affairs?"
Wei Yushang was confused and said: "Teacher, what's wrong with you? Did I do something wrong?"
"Alas!" Chen Xiaomu sighed, "Don't you understand yet? The teacher is now the general judge of the Xinjing Mansion, which means that Jia Gui has been promoted and asked me to fill his vacancy!"
"Oh, why would the teacher do this?" Wei Yushang asked in surprise.
Chen Xiaomu sighed: "It's not that I don't think the officials are young, but the key point is that the mother-in-law doesn't know how to feel comfortable with letting me and the second princess, two official noobs, to take charge of the Xinjing Mansion. Isn't she afraid that we will cause a big mess?" trouble!"
Wei Yushang didn't react for a moment and couldn't help asking: "Teacher, who is that woman?"
Chen Xiaomu glanced at her without saying a word. Furong held back her laughter and said, "Sister Wei, the prince-in-law has asked the princess to take care of him!"
Only then did Wei Yushang understand who the woman Chen Xiaomu was referring to, and she actually felt a sense of schadenfreude in her heart!
She comforted Chen Xiaomu and said, "Teacher, don't worry, when you take office, I will ask dad to find an experienced master to help you!"
Chen Xiaomu didn't know whether to laugh or cry when he heard this, so he said, "Let's talk about it later!" and turned to leave.
"Teacher, where are you going?" Wei Yushang said and followed.
Chen Xiaomu didn't reply: "I have something to do with Li Gui and the others. You stay here and wait for Prime Minister Wei. You don't have to follow me."
Wei Yushang couldn't help but said anxiously: "Teacher, the rebellion in Xinjing City has just ended, and there may still be rebels who slipped through the net. Why don't I send someone to find Li Gui for you?"
Chen Xiaomu patted the pistol hidden under his clothes at his waist and sneered: "Whoever dares to make trouble for me, I will send him to the west!"
At this moment, Wei Yuxin came to Wei Yushang's side and whispered: "Sister, you guys wait here for daddy, I'll follow him."
Wei Yushang had no other choice but to nod and warned: "The city is quite chaotic now, so you should be more careful!"
"Got it!" Wei Yuxin agreed and followed Chen Xiaomu quietly.
The two walked in silence for a while, and Wei Yuxin couldn't help but said: "Hey, Prince Consort Chen, I don't want the money you promised me."
Chen Xiaomu stopped and looked at her with a surprised look on his face and said, "Did I hear you right? Isn't it just for the money that you stayed to help me? Why did you change your mind again?"
Wei Yuxin paused and said, "Give me the hidden weapon you promised to my sister, and we'll settle the matter!"
Chen Xiaomu shook his head, "That won't work. A gentleman's words are hard to catch up with. I will definitely do what I promised!"
Wei Yuxin stamped his feet and shook his head: "I don't care, anyway, I want your hidden weapon."
Chen Xiaomu smiled and said: "As long as you agree to one more condition, I will give you both the hidden weapon and the silver!"
"Ah! Really?" Wei Yuxin stopped when he heard the sound, looked at Chen Xiaomu and said in surprise.
Chen Xiaomu said with a serious face: "I never lie!"
"Oh, tell me what the conditions are?" Wei Yuxin asked impatiently.
Chen Xiaomu said bitterly: "That mother-in-law asked me to go to Xinjing Mansion to serve as acting magistrate. You have to work with me as a government official for a period of time!"
Wei Yuxin was surprised and said: "What? You want me to work as a servant for you, isn't there a servant in Xinjing Mansion?"
"I'm new here. I can't do it without a few of my own people. Besides, I don't trust them!" Chen Xiaomu said with a dull head.
"Okay, I agree, but we have to agree first. How long do you want me to be a yamen servant?" Wei Yuxin asked very seriously.
Chen Xiaomu thought about it for a moment, then gave her a thumbs-up, "I won't be here for a few days. That woman just wants to make me angry. When I expose a big mistake for her, she will naturally fire me."
"No." Chen Xiaomu looked careless, but Wei Yuxin rejected it, and said more seriously: "It's only a few days!"
Chen Xiaomu calculated the time in his mind, and remembered that he promised Zhao Yiqiu that he would return to Chen country with her in ten and a half days at most. Now it was the fifth day in the blink of an eye, so he raised five fingers to Wei Yuxin and replied: " Five days is enough.”
Wei Yuxin was relieved when he heard that the five days passed in a blink of an eye.
The next morning, just after the fifth watch, the night had not completely receded, and the stars were still shining brightly in the deep night sky. Nine loud and resounding bells rang out in succession from the majestic and majestic Zhengguo Palace, and the entire New Capital City The sky above suddenly reverberated with the lingering sound of the bell. At the same time, the lights in the political affairs hall of the court were brightly lit. On the steps in front of the door, the civil and military ministers were divided into two rows in court uniforms. The civil servants were on the left and the military attache was on the right. The civil servants were led by Wei Wen, and the military attachés were Zhuge Cheng led the team, climbing up the stairs and walking slowly towards the court hall.
Wei Yushang did not stand in the hall today, but wore a suit of armor and Lu Yi and others led the guards of the former princess palace. They were responsible for guarding the palace. It was only after Wei Wen left the palace yesterday that he told her that Chen Xiaomu recommended her to serve as the newly appointed member of the imperial court. Wei Yushang was given the position of deputy envoy of the National Security Department. Wei Yushang was very surprised at the time. Before she could take up the post, the director of the Security Department of the Princess Mansion, she was promoted three levels in a row and directly became the deputy envoy of the Zheng Guo Security Department. No wonder Chen Xiaomu kept saying that his official position was not higher than hers when he came out of the palace, but she didn't take it seriously at the time and thought he was just saying it casually.
The civil and military officials entered the political hall and were sorted into different ranks. As soon as they stood up, they heard the eunuch in charge shouting from the screen behind the dragon chair, "The emperor has arrived." Then they saw Su Xingran wearing a crown, a dragon robe, and a pair of shoes. Purple Boots slowly walked out from behind the screen, walked to the dragon chair and sat down. Then Wei Wen walked out of the civil service train, took the edict from the little eunuch with both hands, faced the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, and read loudly: "Inherited by heaven, The emperor's edict said: I have been on the throne for more than ten years, and I have worked hard to govern. However, I am now ill and unable to manage the affairs of the government. Now I have the eldest princess Su Xingran, who is extremely intelligent and blessed by heaven. I am here to pass it on to her. I hope she will become a wise king who loves the people. Admire this.
After Wei Wen read out Su Chengxuan's imperial edict, the civil and military ministers standing below knelt down as if they were pushing down jade pillars from a mountain of gold, shouting three times in unison, "Long live our emperor, long live the emperor! Long live the emperor!"
After Su Xingran sat on the dragon chair and accepted the worship of the ministers, he stretched out his hands with the palms upward, gently raised them up, and said gently to the people below: "My dear friends, I am now on the throne of a great treasure. There is a reward."
At this time, the eunuch in charge of the palace, Wang Gonggong, was escorted by four palace guards and walked into the court from the main entrance. He was holding a gold tray in his hand. On the tray was a traditional jade seal wrapped in a piece of yellow silk. , several people came to Su Xingran's dragon case and knelt down together, and said: "Your Majesty, the old slave has accepted the emperor's decree and handed down the national jade seal to the new emperor!" After saying that, they raised the gold tray in their hands high above their heads. .
Wei Wen walked out of the train again and came to the prince's side. He stretched out his hands and gently picked up the imperial seal from the golden tray, put it on the dragon table in front of Su Xingran, and then returned to the civilian train.
Due to internal and external troubles and tight time, there was no time to make any preparations. The new emperor's enthronement ceremony ended hastily. Then the discussion of government affairs began. Zhuge Cheng first walked out of the military attache train, came to the dragon case, bowed and saluted: "Your Majesty, today I have just ascended the throne, and the veteran did not dare to come here to spoil the fun. Unfortunately, the issue of military pay has reached an urgent level. For the sake of the country, the country, the country, and the country, the veteran dared to come forward to inform His Majesty that the issue of military pay should be resolved as soon as possible. !”
Su Xingran nodded, "Old Ai Qing, you are right. I have already thought about it. Now the court will put aside all matters and do its best to raise military pay!"
Zhuge Cheng sighed and said, "Your Majesty, I have heard about what happened in the past two days. I think if those two rebels hadn't caught on to the army's unpaid wages, no matter how they fanned the flames, they wouldn't have been able to cause trouble!"
Su Xingran frowned and said, "Do you have any good ideas, my dear? You might as well tell me."
Zhuge Cheng was stunned for a moment, and finally said helplessly: "I have been an official in the imperial court for many years and have accumulated more than two thousand taels of silver. I am now willing to give it to your majesty to solve the urgent needs of the imperial court."
Su Xingran was both moved and disappointed when he heard this, and said kindly: "Old Ai Qing is really loyal to the court. If I estimate correctly, these two thousand taels of silver must be Lao Ai Qing's pension money. No matter how poor the court is, how can it be done?" I have the heart to accept this pension money from Lao Aiqing! Fortunately, I received a sum of more than one million taels of silver from the princess's mansion a few days ago. In addition to the 600,000 taels I dedicated to my father, I still have nearly one million taels left. You can use it to relieve immediate urgency first!"
Zhuge Cheng nodded repeatedly and murmured: "Okay, okay, this one million taels of silver can last at least another month!"
Unexpectedly, Dai Jun, the Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, walked out of the train at this time and said hesitantly: "Your Majesty, do you have a memorial for me?"
Su Xingran felt her eyelids twitch, and she immediately had a bad feeling in her heart, but she still smiled and said, "Dai Aiqing, please speak."
Dai Jun stepped forward and cupped his hands and said: "Wei Chen would like to ask the emperor to allocate 200,000 taels of silver from this one million taels to help the refugees displaced by the war. Due to the cold weather in the past two days, the refugees outside Xinjing have been hungry and cold. There are countless refugees who have been forced to freeze to death and starved to death, which is really pitiful. At the same time, the number of theft, robbery, murder and other cases caused by refugees has also increased significantly!"
"This..." Su Xingran hesitated for a moment.
Seeing this, Zhuge Cheng said anxiously: "Your Majesty, you must not do it. This one million taels of silver is already insufficient. How can we appease the army with another two hundred thousand taels? What do you think about those behind the officers and soldiers in the army?" It’s not just raising a family, some families even rely on grass roots and tree bark for several months to satisfy their hunger. They say refugees are pitiful, but aren’t these soldiers who serve the country pitiful?”
Just when Su Xingran was in a dilemma, Wei Yushang hurriedly walked in from outside the palace, bowed and saluted: "Your Majesty, teacher...oh, oh no, it's Captain Chen who is back!"
Su Xingran frowned and said to herself: "This guy, just because he was asked yesterday to serve as the judge of the Xinjing Mansion for a few days, today he didn't even come to support my mother's enthronement. It seems that you are quite angry! I'll see you later. How to deal with you!"
Zhuge Cheng seemed to be deliberately trying to make Chen Xiaomu look ugly. He seemed to have just remembered it all of a sudden. He first said "Oops", then he bowed his hands to Su Xingran with a smile on his face and said, "Congratulations to your Majesty, congratulations to your Majesty, Captain Chen is here. The silver issue has been solved, and Shangshu Dai and I no longer have to worry about the silver issue!"
Su Xingran said in surprise: "Oh, dear dear, how can you say this?"
Zhuge Cheng's face immediately showed memories, and he said with a smile: "A few days ago, Captain Chen boasted in the court that he could raise 3.5 million taels of silver for the court in five days. The old minister just calculated it. Today, It happens to be the fifth day, it seems that Captain Chen raised the money and sent it over this time!"
Su Xingran couldn't help but smile bitterly to himself after hearing this, and said to himself: "Your three and a half million taels is not bad. Yesterday this guy was bragging in front of me. Today he wants to give me 20 million taels as a gift for my enthronement, and he wants to ask me again." More than half of the country’s taxes will be exempted!”
Unexpectedly, as soon as Zhuge Cheng finished speaking, Wei Yushang suddenly turned to him and said: "Master Taiwei, you are right. Captain Chen did tell me just now that he came here with money!"
"Ah!" Zhuge Cheng was shocked when he heard this, and then asked doubtfully: "Can he really get 3.5 million taels of silver?"
Wei Yushang shook her head, "I don't know how much money, but there are more than twenty carriages full of boxes following him!"
"Let's go and have a look!" Before Wei Yushang could finish her words, Su Xingran took the lead to step down from the dragon chair, holding the dragon robe in both hands and hurriedly walked out of the court hall.
Sure enough, just as Wei Yushang said, there were more than twenty carriages pulled by tall horses parked at the entrance of the palace, and each carriage was filled with wooden boxes stacked on top of each other.
Seeing Su Xingran wearing a crown on her head and holding a dragon robe in both hands, she hurried over, followed by a large group of civil and military officials from the DPRK and China. Chen Xiaomu, who was wearing a pair of dark circles under his eyes, walked up to meet him and said with a smile: "Emperor's wife, I will give it to you for my husband." Here comes the congratulatory gift!" After saying that, Su Xingran waited for Su Xingran to start scolding him, then he climbed onto a carriage nearby and opened the lid of one of the wooden boxes with a "pop" sound. The wooden box suddenly shone with golden light. The box was actually full of There was a box full of gold ingots, and then Chen Xiaomu opened two more wooden boxes, which were still full of gold ingots.
Then Chen Xiaomu jumped out of the car, climbed onto another carriage, and opened several wooden boxes one after another. These wooden boxes were filled with white silver ingots. In the middle wooden box, There was actually a box full of banknotes issued by major box office banks. I picked up one at random, and the denominations on it were thousands of taels of silver.
