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Huang Xiucai wandered around the horse for several days, and on this day he heard the noise of people and horses, and Manager Li said: "Arrived, this is the capital, and if you walk forward for a while, you will arrive at the palace." Listening to the three of them ask and answer, they talked and rode away. Hearing that when they arrived at a place, the three of them got off the horse, and Manager Li said: "Master of the gate, hard work, hard work, we are the messenger of the Lingnan County Government, and I have come to report the chapter on the order of the prefect." I heard the doorkeeper say, "Check the traces before you can enter the hospital." I heard that he took out the seal of the chapter, and after the guard inspected the door, let the three of them in. Feeling that he had been carried up a few lines of steps, someone shouted, "Who is the person who came to the Privy Secretariat?" A man came over and said, "Present the watch, bring the treasures offered, and let the prime minister read and approve it, so that the emperor can read it, and you wait for the approval." The man took the piece and the bag and walked to the back hall. Hearing him walk to a place, he stopped and said respectfully: "Your Excellency, there is a copy of the Lingnan County Government today, and a treasure is offered, please take a look." A solemn voice was heard, saying, "Present the chapter, put the treasure on the table, open it and let it be examined." When I heard this, I opened the bag and felt that my eyes lit up. There were two faces looking at him, one was a thin young man, and the other was a middle-aged man with three locks of beard, he wore a gauze hat and court clothes. Huang Xiucai thought: "This person is the prime minister." I saw the prime minister take him out of the box and look up and down, left and right. Put him down, open the recital and read it, and said: "Offering treasures, I thought that there were some rare treasures in the world, but it was just a large piece of fine jade, and it was rare to be loyal to the king." After speaking, he wrote a note and replied, asked the young man to send it, and sent the three of them back. Huang Xiucai saw this prime minister's talent, and thought to himself: "I am fortunate to see a first-class prime minister, this prime minister is in front of the Son of Heaven, in charge of hundreds of officials, and above ten thousand people under one person, there must be a genius who has passed through heaven and earth." When he is full of reading scriptures, full of splendid learning, loyal and patriotic, regards the society as his life, and regards the people as his own, he has the opportunity to study hard with him. Then the prime minister wrapped him up in a box, and put him in a bag, and everything was dark again. Huang Xiucai sighed, was quiet for a while, and heard the sound of snoring, thinking that the prime minister was sleeping on the bookcase. After an unknown number of times, a voice said softly: "Prime Minister, Prime Minister, your palanquin man has come to pick you up." The prime minister said: "In the past few days, the two adults of Wang and Han have been sick and sick, and their bodies are not happy, and if they don't come to duty, I am on duty alone, and I am a little tired." He also said: "It's time, it's time, bring back the stone offered by Lingnan County, and I will examine it well, don't play tricks on the court." ”
Huang Xiucai was moved into the sedan chair and took a sedan chair with the prime minister back to the prime minister's house. When he returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion, the Prime Minister asked his family to move him to the hall. After waiting for a while, footsteps came and took him out of the box again. By this time it was already dark, and a giant wax was lit. The prime minister looked at him carefully and said to himself, "It's a good jade, a good jade." He turned his head and shouted, "Come to Lu, you go and bring the piece of jade on the bookshelf in the study." From time to time, that Lailu brought a piece of jade smaller than himself, and the prime minister compared the piece of jade with himself, looked at it again and again, and said while comparing it: "It's far away, that dog, mother-raised person joined the army, gave the prime minister what kind of tattered things, and said that it is a rare treasure, how is it better than this jade in Lingnan County." The prefect of Lingnan County, you have the heart of loyalty, and you have no filial piety for your own appearance, you can't be both loyal and filial, how can you be the official of one of your parents. As he spoke, he wrapped the jade that Lai Lu had brought, put it in the box, put it in his bag, pushed it to the side and said, "It's the emperor." Moved Huang Xiucai up again and said, "This is the prime minister's." "The prime minister is fascinated, and there is a family report: there are guests to meet.
At the beginning, Huang Xiucai saw the prime minister's dignified appearance, and admired it, when he saw this prime minister, he swapped himself with the piece of jade, left himself, and gave his piece of jade to the emperor, he didn't feel disgusted, and scolded: You are a selfish and good traitor, the country is unfortunate, the people are unlucky, and a dog mongrel like you is the prime minister, selfishness is too heavy, misleading the country and the people, and the three outlines and five constants taught by the sage are not as good as child's play on you. When he was angry, he listened to the sound of a person walking in outside, and saw by candlelight that the person who came was burly, magnificent, and refreshed. A bold voice came and said, "Hey——, Prime Minister, this king has come to ask you for a calligraphy, and I hope you don't refuse." The prime minister was stunned when he heard the voice, hurriedly put him down, and lifted the bag and put it under a few cases. When he looked back at him again, and when he wanted to move, he heard a person coming from outside the door, hurriedly turned around and walked quickly to meet him, knelt down and kowtowed, and said: "The minister sees Chitose, and if he misses the welcome, please Wang Ye Haihan." The prince bent down and picked up the prime minister and said, "Virtuous minister, please get up quickly, you and I don't have to be so respectful." The two of them sat down separately.
The prince said: "I came today, there are two things to ask you to help, one is: please write a picture of the longevity of the word 'longevity', you are the master of calligraphy, you will write, I will give it to people, it is also a very decent thing; After taking it, I felt that it was very useful to float in the clouds. This king is fortunate to have taken one or two pills, and he wants more, but he can't help the real person. I think the saint, the day is full of opportunities, the dragon body is supreme, and he once recommended this matter to the saint, but the saint did not adopt it. Prime Minister, you and I must take the emperor's dragon body as the priority, the national society as the priority, and the common people in the world as the priority, and we should take care of the emperor's dragon body. This immortal pill is conducive to longevity, strengthening the body, and the health of the holy dragon, which is the luck of our courtiers, the country, the community, and the people of the world. After hearing this, the prime minister said: "What the prince said is very true, even if there is this immortal pill, the emperor must know that the minister does not dare to deceive the emperor." The prince said: "Okay, this matter is up to you to play the Ming Sheng, don't forget it!" The prime minister hurriedly said: "The lower officials are loyal to the court, the emperor, and the prince." The prince smiled and said: "Okay, this king likes officials like you, the word 'longevity' will be sent to pick it up in a few days, this is for you." As he spoke, he took out a silver ticket from his sleeve and said, "It's the pen fee, five thousand taels, don't be too little." The prime minister hurriedly excused himself and said: "It is the honor of the courtiers to serve the prince, how can you charge, by all means, please put it away quickly." The prince turned his face and said, "Who is the lord and who is the minister?" The prime minister said in surprise: "The prince is the master, and the minister is the slave." The prince laughed and said, "The lord rewards his ministers, and there is no reason not to accept it, as long as you remember in your heart that this king is the master and is loyal to this king!" After speaking, he stood up and said, "This king has returned to his house." The prime minister bowed down and sent him out.
Huang Xiucai saw that the prince paid 5,000 taels of remuneration, and thought to himself: "The word 'longevity', the remuneration is too expensive, the prince is so generous, the way is extraordinary." cares about the emperor's dragon body, and also values the people of the community, and is a good prince. It's a pity that the prince doesn't know how incompetent this dog is, and he hates that he can't expose this dog thief in words. ”
Seeing that the prime minister sent the prince away, and when he came back, he was going to move himself, and then the family came in and said: "Master, there are guests who have come to see him, because the prince is here, he is waiting in the side room for the time being." Before he finished speaking, a person entered the hall and knelt down and said, "Prime Minister, you will wait for a long time." The man stood up, very humble, and said, "The humble position comes from your disciple, and he is your protégé, and he has always served outside Beijing." The prime minister sat down, picked himself up and looked at it carefully, and replied, "Oh, oh, good, good," the man approached the prime minister, took out a letter from his sleeve and said, "Prime Minister, this is a thousand hectares of fertile land run by the protégé in the place under his jurisdiction, for the teacher, and this is the document deed scroll." As he spoke, he took out the title deed and flipped it over for the prime minister to see, saying: "They are all signed in the name of the prime minister, and there is a set of mansions in it, which is very elegant by the mountains and rivers, and was left by a prince of the previous dynasty." The prime minister pushed the scroll with his hand and said, "What is this?" The official knelt down and said, "Prime Minister, the protégé is a deputy in that state, and he has a history of arrogance, arrogance, and arrogance, and has repeatedly left the government to travel, and abandoned government affairs. He traveled the mountains and rivers, drank all day long, drank in the wilderness with a few scholars, recited poems, gave words, and had many hidden thorns, praised the past and derogated the present, and talked about the dynasty in vain. When he was drunk, he bullied his colleagues and subordinates and ridiculed the senior members of the DPRK and China. Before the completion of the imperial temple in Japan, he inscribed a poem, which has many implications. I saw the prime minister put himself down and said, "What kind of poetry is there such a thing?" The official said: "The assassin wrote: Heroes are proud of the world, and Huarong does not kill Cao on the road." The traitor did not get rid of the scourge, and finally it was destroyed by the Han Dynasty. The protégé is ignorant, and he looks at the prime minister. After hearing this, the prime minister pondered for a while and said: "It is rare that you have a heart of loyalty and filial piety, and you have bent in your position, and the prime minister must give your talent and loyalty to the country to the emperor, and deserve to be reused." The official put the title deed of the document on the case lightly with both hands, knelt down and kowtowed, and said: "Thank you for the teacher's recommendation, the protégé will never forget the great kindness." The prime minister put his hand in his hand and said, "Please get up, please get up, come and sit down for tea!" The official stood up and said, "The protégé will no longer disturb each other, farewell, farewell." He turned and walked out the door. The prime minister didn't give him away, but brought the house deed to him, looked at it with a smile, twisted his beard, and muttered: "How can such a filial piety and talent, a real pillar of the country, not be used." ”
When Huang Xiucai saw all this, he gritted his teeth and scolded: "You two dog officials, traitors! Selling officials and lords, corrupting the dynasty, and rebellious ministers and thieves!" When he scolded bitterly, there were family members and outsiders who came to see him. The prime minister hurriedly put the deed in his sleeve and said, "Come in with him." I saw nine strong men walking outside, and the eight stood on both sides, and there was one person, tall and thin, with a vigorous and awe-inspiring demeanor, and stepped forward and said, "Prime Minister, don't come unharmed." When the prime minister saw this person, he hurriedly stood up, greeted him, bowed down and said, "I didn't expect it to be the envoy who arrived, and I couldn't greet him from afar, forgive my sins, forgive my sins." The envoy Da Ma Jindao was not polite, sat down and said, "How is that done? The Great Khan has sent me here to do two things, one is that you have done a good job and you have been sealed, and the other is that you have not done a good job and you have to bring back your head." The prime minister hurriedly knelt down and said: "How dare the Great Khan be reckless, it is my luck to be loyal to the Great Khan, and it has already been done." The envoy said, "Since it has been done, you can bring it to the envoy for acceptance." The prime minister got up and shouted, "Come to Lu, come to Lu!" Lai Lu came in, and the prime minister said, "You go to the study and bring the wooden box under the rattan couch." After a while, Lailu moved the wooden box and put it down. The prime minister opened the wooden box, and Huang Xiucai looked at it closely, it was a roll of paper, on which were drawn geographical figures, mountains and rivers markers. The envoy took the interrogation one by one, pointed and pointed, and after reading them one by one, he put them away and said: "The Great Khan has appointed you as: 'King of the Yellow River, King of the Yangtze River, King of the East China Sea, King of Kunlun,' and the position of the four kings." The prime minister hurriedly knelt down and thanked him and said, "Xie Da Khan is enthroned." The envoy said: "In addition, you have to think of a new way to change the general guarding the pass, and it is best to defend the territory with a person who does not understand military affairs, this is a very important matter, and it must be done well! The Great Khan has rewarded you with some gifts, which have a gift list." As he spoke, he put the gift slip on the table. Huang Xiucai saw that the gifts were written as follows: two branches of ginseng, four mink skins, two packs of deer antler velvets, and six bear bile. The prime minister once again knelt down to thank the Great Khan for his reward. The envoy said: "The Great Khan has made you four kings, you must do a good job for the Great Khan, and do not live up to the Great Khan's reward, all those who are disloyal to the Great Khan will do so." As he spoke, he suddenly pulled out a long dagger that shone with cold light, and slashed it towards the corner of the case, which fell with the light of the knife. The prime minister's face was as white as earth, and he was dripping with sweat, and he said in a loud voice: "Be loyal to the Great Khan, be loyal to the Great Khan." The envoy waved his hand, said, "Let's go!" and walked away. Huang Xiucai saw it in his eyes, understood it in his heart, and scolded angrily: "Okay, you traitor, you really do everything, fornicating with foreign countries, a few flavors of medicinal herbs, and you have sold the country with an empty name! You have sold your ancestors! Traitorous dog thief! Shameless man! I fainted in anger for a while.