As soon as these words came out, Weiyang Palace became lively again, and many people immediately jumped out. Some complained about Hai Ruxian, some advocated heavy punishment for Hai Ruxian, and some even jumped out to flatter Qin Ming. Praise him for his sharp eyesight.
"Quiet!" Zhang Yong saw Qin Ming frown and immediately shouted loudly, and the officials also fell silent.
"Cheng Hai Ruxian, who has been demoted to the seventh-rank Imperial Palace, is here to record the affairs of the ninth-rank Prince's Mansion!" Zhang Yong read Qin Ming's oral edict, and the voice reached His Highness. Hai Ruxian kowtowed to accept the order, then stood up and stood back in the team.
Qin Ming glanced at the officials again, then cleared his throat and said: "On my first day of supervising the country today, I heard that there is a severe drought in the north, and the land is thousands of miles away. Now the victims need relief, but the national treasury is empty. I hope you can do something for the country. Contribute.”
All the officials were stunned at the same time. They didn't expect that Qin Ming could make his words so obvious. He simply put his purpose on the table.
Qin Ming didn't bother to cover up, and directly expressed his attitude. There was a severe drought in the north, and the court wanted to provide disaster relief. Two words: money!
At this time, the officials below were furious. They waved their hands one after another, saying that they were honest and upright, had no other money except their salary, and were helpless to deal with the severe drought in the north.
"Your Highness, veteran minister Lu Siming is willing to donate five thousand taels of silver to help with disaster relief!" Right Prime Minister Lu Siming was the first to stand up and bowed.
"Veteran Li Sanguang is also willing to donate five thousand taels of silver to help the victims." Naturally, Li Sanguang would not lag behind him, and also came out and bowed.
The leaders of the two parties took the lead in standing up, and the rest could only stand up one after another.
"I am willing to donate two thousand five hundred taels to help the victims."
"I donate one thousand taels."
"I donate five hundred taels."
"I donate one hundred taels."
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"Record the list of their pledges of money in the book." Qin Ming said to Zhang Yong. In fact, he had already written down what the officials shouted without Qin Ming having to say anything.
"Retreat!" Qin Ming winked at him, and Zhang Yong understood immediately and shouted loudly.
All the officials kowtowed and said, "The prince is a thousand years old, a thousand years old!"
After the early court and all the officials dispersed, Qin Ming still had to go to the imperial study to approve the memorial.
As soon as he entered the imperial study and sat down, the eunuch next to him brought over a stack of memorials. Qin Ming flipped through it and found Zhu's comments on it.
"What's going on?" Qin Ming threw the memorial to the corner of the table and asked the eunuch with a cold face.
The eunuch quickly knelt down and begged for his life: "Your Highness, have mercy on me. This Zhufu was approved by the Prime Minister and the eunuch Bingbi together."
"Which Prime Minister?" Qin Ming's eyes suddenly flashed with murderous intent. Zhu pen criticism was the exclusive power of the emperor. The eunuch's rights were only to comment on the memorial according to the emperor's words. He had no right to write without authorization. As for the prime minister, He also has no right to view the memorial.
"Li... Prime Minister Li and Prime Minister Lu." The little eunuch was frightened.
"Call eunuch Bingbi to this palace." Qin Ming leaned on the chair and ordered to the young eunuch, "By the way, there is also Zhang Yong."
"My slave obeys the order." The little eunuch breathed a sigh of relief and hurried to call for someone.
Qin Ming closed his eyes and gently rubbed his temples, feeling melancholy for a while. The Dali Dynasty was really a mess. Foreign troubles were imminent, and internal worries were stuck on his face. No matter how many times Li Sanguang and Lu Siming had passed, he Heaven is riding on the head of this prince.
However, this was just the beginning of the supervision of the country. In addition, he was a useless prince before and his subordinates had no power. It was not easy to compete with those two old monsters.
Prime Ministers Li and Lu were not only two prime ministers, but also the leaders of their respective court parties. They were also the targets of support from several aristocratic families. These forces were entangled together to form a huge power chimera, which was said to have invaded the government and the public. Not an exaggeration.
It is not yet time to eradicate these cancers.
Just as he was thinking about it, Zhang Yong and Eunuch Bingbi had been summoned by the young eunuch. As soon as they entered the imperial study, they knelt down and kowtowed: "The prince may live a thousand years, a thousand years."
Qin Ming walked around the desk and walked to the two of them, but did not allow them to get up. He asked condescendingly: "Since the founding of the Dali Dynasty, there has never been a precedent for eunuch Bingbi to criticize memorials without authorization. How dare you?"
The eunuch Bingbi was shocked by Qin Ming's power. He was already trembling all over. He laid his head tightly on the ground and said: "Back to Your Highness, today's memorial was approved by Prime Minister Li first, and then the servants signed it on behalf of the saint."
"Prime Minister Li?" Qin Ming sneered and asked, "The holy king of the Dali Dynasty is named Li? Which master are you serving?"
"I don't dare!" Eunuch Bingbi couldn't stop kowtowing after hearing this. "Ever since the Holy Master became unwell, memorials have been handled by Prime Minister Li and Lu. Therefore, memorials from ministers are also sent to the Prime Minister's Cabinet first, and then Send it to the imperial study."
"Now I am the supervisor of the palace!" Qin Ming kicked him away and rolled on the ground several times before he stopped. Blood streamed from the corner of his mouth. "Come here! Destroy you as the eunuch Bingbi and send him to the Royal Horse Supervisor to feed the horses!" "
When Eunuch Bingbi heard this, he burst into tears and called Chitose for mercy. Then there were Xuanyi guards on both sides who dragged him away.
"Zhang Yong, did your father know at this time?" Qin Ming asked Zhang Yong to stand up and asked him with a cold face.
"The Holy One knew about this, and he approved it from the beginning and sent the memorial to the Prime Minister's Mansion..." Zhang Yongzheng explained, but was suddenly interrupted by Qin Ming.
"What I'm saying is that Eunuch Bingbi will take charge of this matter." He stood in front of Zhang Yong. Although his body was not majestic, it was like a mountain, weighing down the emperor's personal servant and the chief steward of the harem. Dare to look up.
"Your Majesty, I don't know..." Zhang Yong said anxiously.
"Is this what you do as a general manager?" Qin Ming turned around and walked behind the desk, and pulled out the Emperor's Sword hanging on the screen behind.
"This slave is guilty!" Zhang Yong saw something was wrong and quickly knelt down and kowtowed.
"Please remember this, you are just a eunuch. Your power and status were given to you by your father. You must do whatever your father wants you to do!" Qin Ming walked up to Zhang Yongshen with his sword. forward.
"Your Highness is right!"
He put the sword between Zhang Yong's neck and said slowly: "Now my father wants me to supervise the country on my behalf. When you see me, you will do what I say. I want you to die. Then you can’t live one more moment, do you understand?”
The cold edge of the sword was pressed against his neck, and Zhang Yong realized that the prince in front of him was no longer the useless person who was at the mercy of others and controlled by everyone.
The current prince is unfathomable!
"Your Highness wants this slave to die, and I will be thrown into a sea of fire and a mountain of swords!" Zhang Yong said without daring to move.
"Okay!" Qin Minggui sheathed his sword, asked Zhang Yong to stand up, and said, "For the officials who donated money to the court this morning, I want to know how much their property is and present it to me before the afternoon court."
Qin Ming sneered, the most he could donate was five thousand taels of silver, right? If he remembered correctly, the lives of these ministers were extremely extravagant, and just one spring banquet cost tens of thousands of dollars. It was too late to start pretending to be poor now!
Spit it all out!
