Chu Qing stood on tiptoe and looked for a long time. He was slightly relieved when he found that there was no father among the ministers of the Ministry of Industry.
Some time ago, my father said that the emperor asked him to investigate the food and salary matters of the Eighth Camp. He went to the Eighth Camp every day for a walk, so he didn't have to go to court.
After finally starting to enter the palace, Chu Qing looked east and west.
When waiting for court, Chu Qing didn't know where to stand.
After thinking about it, Chu Qing stood behind a big pillar and was at the end of the group of generals.
In fact, it doesn't matter whether Chu Qing comes to the court or not, because he is not prepared to speak. Someone will naturally tell him what happened specifically after the court.
He just started to hate waiting. Even if he stood aside and watched, it was much better than waiting hard in the squad room and thinking wildly.
The time has come, and today Huang Laosi stepped on the spot and took Sun An, the chief administrative assistant of Dachang, to appear from behind the dragon chair.
After Huang Laosi sat on the dragon chair, his two eyes hidden behind the jade crown began to glance back and forth, looking for Chu Qing's figure.
As a result, the fourth child didn't see Chu Qing, but saw a few officials who didn't usually go to court.
First of all, it was Tao Yao, the prince's young master, and secondly, there were some more elderly officials in the Ministry of Household Affairs, and even Ma Rui, the governor of Jingzhao Mansion, came.
The fourth child is not stupid. These people have all come to court, and Chu Qing is included, so there must be something wrong.
Chu Qing poked his head, hid his body behind his master, and peeked at the emperor on the dragon throne.
Chu Qing had been taking a peek since the emperor first came in from behind, and the more he looked, the more familiar he felt.
This bastard walks like a 25,800-year-old. Why does he look more and more like a guy named Huang?
After Sun An opened the court by shouting at the top of his lungs, the officials started to speak.
The officials of the Shangshu Province who should be the first to speak usually fished and said nothing was wrong, and then the representatives of the six ministries came out and told lies with their eyes open. Under the leadership of the wise and powerful Lao Si, Dachang slowly moved toward prosperity step by step.
After the six parts were finished, the representative of Jiu Temple started to perform. We are good, we are free, we are fine, over.
Chu Qing, who came to court for the first time, continued to be stunned.
Is this a court meeting?
Singing and dancing, peace and prosperity, and people living and working in peace and contentment?
Are they all telling lies with their eyes open?
It's almost winter. Once it snows heavily, there will be a lot of refugees. No one mentioned it?
King Wu was growing up in Weijiang, a wretched and obscene dog, and no one mentioned it?
There are nearly a thousand refugees without jobs in Zhuangzi in the south of the city. No one mentions it?
There are many aristocratic families, and there are factions divided by the exchange of interests. No one mentions it?
In fact, Chu Qing didn't know something. It wasn't that no one mentioned it, but it was mentioned on different occasions or under different conditions.
Many ministers would write down many things in the memorial, and then the emperor would read it. In the memorial, they would write down the cause, process, possible consequences, etc. At the end of the memorial, they would write suggestions, or indicate which government office the matter should be dealt with. The department will be responsible.
The emperor thought it was OK, so he did it with a stroke of his pen, and then the government offices began to operate to handle this matter.
If the emperor feels that it is not OK, there are two development directions. The first is to call the person who raised the matter to Jingyi Hall to have an in-depth discussion and find a solution. If no solution can be found, or Jingyi Hall is not called, In the Hall of Ceremony, it will be brought up during the court meeting, and everyone will brainstorm to find a correct solution.
In such a large country, there are indeed many government affairs every day, but they are actually divided into several categories, which are commonplace or frequently occurring problems. For these problems and problems, the court and the emperor have systematic solutions and corresponding countermeasures. , unless there is an emergency, everyone is too lazy to write a memorial and directly speaks out in the court.
So to be fair, Dachang Dynasty's way and ability to handle government affairs are not too bad. Judging from the current stage and actual situation, it can be said that it is doing very well. When encountering problems, it can always come up with corresponding solutions. Of course, the execution ability is somewhat unsatisfactory. It's not that the government orders are not clear, but that even if the government orders are issued, Beijing and Central are fine. When it comes to other state capitals, the farther away they are, the more the execution ability is compromised.
In addition, it cannot be said that everyone in the court is talking nonsense, mainly because there is nothing to say.
Sun An called to open the court, and then the Prime Minister said that there was nothing wrong with me, the Sixth Department said that there was nothing wrong with our Gada, and the Nine Temples said that we were also fine. That would be very embarrassing. In a whole morning, we can't be emperor. Look at each other with big eyes and small eyes with the courtiers. When the Supreme Emperor was in power, he always made this mistake. As soon as the court started, the eunuch would announce that there was something to report and leave the court if nothing happened. In the end, the scholars arranged for the Supreme Emperor to be absent every day. Business.
Huang Laosi has never had this problem. If there is a big thing, talk about big things. If there is no big thing, talk about small things. If there are no small things, then look for trouble. Everyone is tossing to the palace early in the morning. You can't let all my dear friends come in vain. They must be ink. They did not retreat until noon.
Seeing that all the six tribes and nine temples had finished talking, Tao Yao, who was standing next to the Prime Minister Nangong Xi, left his job.
"Your Majesty, I have something to report."
"Tao Aiqing is..."
Before Huang Laosi finished speaking, he coughed quickly and winked at Sun An next to him.
Sun An shouted: "Your Majesty occasionally felt cold last night and was feeling unwell. It is not appropriate to say anything."
The ministers were slightly surprised.
Everyone knows very well that, regardless of the ability of the old four to govern the country, just speaking of his body structure, it is quite good. It is said that when he was a general, he ran around with his soldiers shirtless in the winter, and after he ascended the throne, he did not I've been sick before, why am I still feeling unwell?
But everyone didn't think much about it. When Tao Yao saw the emperor nodding, he spoke loudly.
"Your Majesty, Li Mu, the son of the national thief Li Wenli, was appointed as the county magistrate of Xiao County. The people in Xiao County were miserable. When Li Mu was the county magistrate, he forced the people to dig mountains and quarry stone and sell it to the capital. The old minister heard this recently. , the people who collected the stones from Xiao County were the family members of Zhang Songling, the right minister of the Ministry of Rites. Mr. Zhang was the right minister of the Ministry of Rites, but he was negotiating with thieves like Li Mu. This was one reason. Forget it, if the people of Xiao County still buy stones because they know that Li Mu did not pay his wages to the people, then he is bullying the people."
As soon as he finished speaking, the whole hall was shocked.
They are all in the officialdom. Who doesn't know that Zhang Songling has a monopoly on the stone industry in Beijing, and who doesn't know that part of the money Zhang Songling earns is sent to the palace. Everyone believes that Tao Yao must also know, but since he knows, he still mentions it. , isn’t this a slap in the emperor’s face?
When his name was called, Zhang Songling had a normal expression and was not in a hurry to go out and explain. He wanted to know what the emperor meant first.
Zhang Songling didn't expect the emperor to directly say that I am the major shareholder, so don't meddle in other people's business and stay where you can.
Because this matter cannot be discussed on the table at all. Zhang Songling was a little worried when the Li family was arrested before.
The stone was transported from Xiao County. In other words, Xiao County Magistrate Li Mu extracted the stone from the people, sold it to Zhang Songling at a low price, and Zhang Songling sold it to others at a high price. He made money and divided it. Some of them were sent to the palace.
So this money can also be said to be stained with blood. Because of this, Zhang Songling asked Hua Fei Zhang Muling and Lan Guiren Zhang Yaoniang to explain to the Supreme Emperor and the Emperor respectively, saying that the Zhang family did not know that these stones were passed by Li Mu. The Zhang family only spends money to purchase and then sell exclusively what is mined by other means.
Neither the Supreme Emperor nor the Emperor expressed their opinions, and Zhang Songling didn't know whether they believed it or not. In short, there was nothing more to say.
Precisely because there was no further text, Zhang Songling thought that the emperor didn't care.
Even Chu Qing thought so, thinking that the emperor didn't care.
But Zhang Songling didn't know that Chu Qing wanted to mess with him. If he had known, he wouldn't have thought so.
The situation on Chu Qing's side was similar. He didn't even think about it. If the emperor didn't care, would he still be allowed to serve as the deputy commander of the Thousand Cavalry Battalion?
In any case, the flames of war were finally ignited.
