June 7th.

Zhou Ming's 20th birthday celebration ceremony began grandly.

On this day, the whole world celebrates, it is very lively, singing and dancing, and the whole country is carnival.

Zhou Ming, who was dressed in a gorgeous costume, also sat in the middle of the ceremonial hall and accepted the gifts given to him by the ministers and nobles.

Every official gives a gift, and the ceremonial officer announces it loudly.

"Prime Minister Orumconi, I will present Your Majesty with ten gold stones, ten boxes of jewelry, 100 rare treasures, and 10 peerless beauties, wishing Your Majesty a long life and a heavenly Qi and eternal glory to the Empire!"

"Uncle Rubster, I will give Your Majesty ten stones of gold, ten boxes of rare treasures, ten pieces of rare treasures, and ten beauties of the royal family, I wish Your Majesty ten thousand years and the empire will be prosperous!"

"Lord Hagos, the chief minister, present Your Majesty nine gold and silver stones, nine boxes of jewelry, fifty treasures, and ten beauties, I wish Your Majesty good health and prosperity, and I wish the empire prosperity and Yonglong!"

"The second cabinet minister, Lord Weilong Pound, presents His Majesty XXXX, XXXX, XXXX, ten beauties, I wish Your Majesty XXXX ......"

“……”

Zhou Ming, who was sitting on the main seat, became more and more irritable when he heard these reports.

Beauty, beauty......

Every minister or nobleman, among the gifts given, included the so-called "beauties"!

The largest number was given away by ten.

The least sent was also sent at least two...... It means that good things come in pairs.

And the most unscrupulous thing, some ministers use methods such as going through the back door, trusting relationships, and bribing heavy money to let those well-dressed and bewitching beauties walk through the ceremonial hall and dangle under Zhou Ming's nose.

Among them, there are talent shows, exotic ones, twin sisters, triplet sisters, and the extremely rare quadruplets sisters.

Anyway, there are all kinds of beauties!

In half an hour's effort, at least three or four hundred beauties passed in front of Zhou Ming's eyes.

If it weren't for the fact that today's day was special and it was not good, he would probably have scolded people on the spot!

Even punish some of the overperformers!

But he endured it and didn't have a seizure.

And when the gift-giving ceremony came to an end, when Zhou Ming had become extremely impatient, the ceremonial officer, who had been singing loudly, suddenly got stuck and no longer read the gift list in his hand.

"Why don't you read it?" Zhou Ming asked.

"Your Majesty, the gift given by this nobleman is of low value, and it is extremely rude to you, Your Majesty, and the ministers dare not read it. The ceremonial officer bowed his head and said.

"Read!" Zhou Ming said.

"Your Majesty...... The head of the Lucis family, Lord Elsa, presented His Majesty with 100 boxes of high-grade iron ore, 100 boxes of high-grade sulfur flint (a raw material for making gunpowder), and 100 boxes of light purple wood (a material for shipbuilding...... Your Majesty, these things are ordinary things, and they are not as valuable as a gem given by other adults, Your Majesty, Lord Elsa of the Lucis family, this is contempt for the emperor's authority, this is an insult to Your Majesty!"

The ceremonial officer knelt down and said in great fear: "Your Majesty, the Lucis family is so provocative again, please treat them with capital crimes!"

"Princess Elsa didn't give away a beauty?" Zhou Ming asked.

"No! There are beauties on other gift lists, but there are no beauties on this list! Your Majesty, capital crime, this is a capital crime!"

"Hahahaha~"

Zhou Ming suddenly laughed, clapped his hands and said, "What King Elsa sent is what I really need, just what I want!

The ceremonial officer was blinded, this is obviously an unforgivable capital crime that insults His Majesty, and His Majesty the Emperor is actually very satisfied?

With such a low actual value of a gift, His Majesty is actually very happy?

He didn't quite understand what a god like His Majesty was thinking in his head.

……

After the grand and joyous birthday celebration.

June 8th.

The next day, the court was facing up.

Facing the ministers and officials, Zhou Ming made a thunderbolt and scolded the ministers in the palace for a bloody shower!

"Ten stones of gold, ten boxes of treasures! I said that this birthday celebration should be handled frugally, and gifts should be light, you are good, treasures worth more than one million gold towers, as if they are comparing, desperately giving away, completely forgetting, these are all from the lower classes of the people's fat and people's ointment, you don't want to improve their treatment, don't want to improve their living standards, just want to please me, how can this be reasonable?"

"And those beauties from all over the world, I have counted them, there are as many as 10,000 people, which is shocking! How did these beauties come about? How did these beauties come about? Bought with money? Kidnapped and kidnapped? Or did they get them by other means? I don't know, and I don't want to ask about the specific process, I only know: for this birthday celebration, at least 10,000 families have broken up, and more than 10,000 women have left their parents and are facing an unknown fate!"

"What may brew in the end may be tens of thousands of human tragedies!"

"These things, including gold, silver, jewelry, rare treasures, and all the beauties, I don't want any of them, and I will make people return them all!"

"In the future, I will not let people do activities like birthday celebrations, so as not to cause countless human tragedies. ”

Zhou Ming's statement caused an uproar in the hall and a wail.

"Your Majesty, this is all our heart!"

"Your Majesty, we didn't use the people's fat and people's ointment, and all that money was earned through foreign trade!"

"Your Majesty, the ten beauties that the minister gave to Your Majesty, they are all willing to enter the palace, and their parents are also very supportive, which did not lead to the breakdown of the family and cause human tragedy!"

"Your Majesty, if you are not satisfied, we will definitely improve in the future, that is, you said that you will not even hold birthday celebrations in the future, how will your subjects show their love and respect for you in the future?

The ministers knelt down and dissuaded and explained again and again.

"Enough!"

Zhou Ming waved his hand: "Anyway, I will send people to return all the treasures and beauties you gave this time, as for whether the birthday celebration can be held or not, I will replace it with other celebration methods according to the actual situation, in short, I will completely abandon the form of celebration yesterday!"

Zhou Ming said again: "In addition, among the hundreds of ministers in this palace, there is one person, I want to focus on commending him!"

"And I will accept all the gifts she gave and express my gratitude, I am very satisfied with the gifts she gave!"

"She is the princess of Elsa, who has just returned to the imperial capital, and I hope everyone will learn from her!"

Zhou Ming pointed to the right, standing in the corner of the last row, and Ersa, who was almost impossible to see.

Brush Brush Brush!

The eyes of everyone in the hall were focused on Elsa!

Then the ministers were in an uproar and talked about it.

"What? Your Majesty specifically praised Lord Elsa and accepted her gift?"

"Lord Elsa, who gave His Majesty two piles of stones and a pile of wood, was not punished?"

"I knew about that yesterday, I thought that the Lucis family would definitely die this time, but I didn't expect that it was us who was scolded, and it was she who was praised!"

"I don't accept it, how much energy did I expend in order to prepare gifts? How many relationships did I entrust? The result is not as good as two piles of stones and a pile of wood from others!"

"Hey, last night, I was discussing with several nobles to jointly ask Your Majesty to destroy the rude Lucis family, and the result was ......" The nobleman was very annoyed.

"Mistakenly, this time, we all made a mistake!"

And under the complicated gaze of the ministers, even if her psychological quality is outstanding, Elsa can't help but blush.

She lifted her skirt and knelt down on her knees and said: "Your Majesty Elsa Xie is exaggerating, the three gifts that Elsa gave to Your Majesty have no other meaning, but I just want to say to Your Majesty that there are a large number of iron ore, sulfur and flint mines and wood in the minister's territory, and if the empire needs it, the minister is willing to supply it in large quantities and guarantee preferential prices." ”

"I understand what you mean, and I will also ask people to place orders to buy these three resources at the right price, and in terms of price, I will not let Lord Elsa suffer!"

Zhou Ming said: "I also hope that other ministers and nobles can be like Lord Elsa, thinking about what the empire thinks and is anxious about the needs of the empire, instead of studying some crooked ways all day long and wasting a lot of people's fat and ointment." ”

"In addition, in order to encourage everyone to learn from Lord Elsa, I ordered that King Elsa be rewarded with 100,000 gold shields and ten boxes of jewels, so that the official position can be upgraded by one level, and you can stand in the noble district to listen to the government, and it will take effect immediately!"

Zhou Ming's reward continued, and Elsa immediately under the guidance of the officials of the Ministry of Rites, in the eyes of countless jealousy and hatred, she suddenly lined up from the end of the aristocratic district to the middle of the queue.

In this way, due to the shortening of the distance, the occlusion is reduced, and Zhou Ming can see her more easily.

Not only that, but Elsa, whose status had just been promoted, Zhou Ming also gave her a more difficult task - to send the ministers and nobles to the tens of thousands of beauties he had to give.

Because these beauties, if all of them are returned the same way, there is no doubt that in the process of returning, these beauties will definitely be touched by those ministers and nobles, and a considerable part of them will definitely not be sent home, but will be enjoyed by the ministers and nobles...... This is tantamount to harming them.

So considering this, Zhou Ming temporarily gathered all the tens of thousands of beauties, and then arranged an official who could handle the matter properly.

Who's in charge?

Looking at the male officials in the palace, Elsa, who stands out from the crowd, as the only woman, is the most suitable job for her.

But considering the complexity and difficulty of this task, Zhou Ming still asked Elsa: Can you accept this work and complete it with applause?

Elsa frowned, considered it carefully, then gritted her teeth, nodded and said, "Your Majesty, the minister can accept this job!"

"Good!"

Zhou Ming said with a look of appreciation: "Elsa, I believe that you will not disappoint me, if the task is completed well, I will reward you greatly!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Elsa said on one knee.