The days have returned to the previous calm, Lu Wenyuan still enters the palace every day to send the chapter, and Zhu Shiyang still follows the heart of the past, when he is happy, he hastily approves two strokes, and when he is unhappy, he piles all the ashes on the desk. Lu Wenyuan actually couldn't get used to his perfunctory attitude towards governing the country for a long time, but since he was promoted to the first assistant of the cabinet, the government affairs are complicated, and he has not been able to take care of positive regulations, and later because of the Lantern Festival banquet, it is not suitable to conflict with the saint again in a short period of time, so he delayed it day by day.

Until this day, Lu Wenyuan uncharacteristically entered the palace early in the morning. In the past, the time when he sent the recital was usually around two or three o'clock in the afternoon, so as soon as Gui Xi announced, Zhu Shiyang was also surprised, and hurriedly announced him in.

When Lu Wenyuan entered the hall, he explained the reason, it turned out that there were a few things that he had done in the recital he sent today, and he needed to give instructions as much as possible. Zhu Shiyang picked up a book and saw that it was the prefect of Datong, Lu Xianming, who said that the spring flood of the Yellow River was imminent, and the flood control fortifications urgently needed to be reinforced, and asked the imperial court to send reinforcements from the Ministry of Industry.

It is said that the cabinet can directly notify the Ministry of Industry of this matter, but to assist the local government in the construction of fortifications, the Ministry of Industry also needs to send a person to lead the overall situation, but the selection of this person must be approved by the emperor and the imperial pen to be counted.

Zhu Shiyang flipped to the end, and sure enough, there was a detailed list of the names of the current officials of the Ministry of Industry, and there were no less than 100 people densely packed. Zhu Shiyang's breakfast was useless, so he didn't have the heart to carefully select it, so he ordered Lu Wenyuan to step back first, and then send it back to the cabinet after reading it himself.

Lu Wenyuan had no choice but to go back to the cabinet to wait, but he waited and waited until the palace door was about to be locked, and no one sent him back. Lu Wenyuan was afraid that he would miss a big event, so he hurriedly got up and went to the harem to urge.

There was silence in the harem at this time, it was almost early spring, and it was still dark early, so Gui Xi lit the palace lamp at the entrance of the hall early. Lu Wenyuan was even more anxious when he saw it, so he raised his voice and asked, "Gonggong Gui, is the emperor here?"

How did Gui Xi hear it, but he was shocked, ran over in three steps and two steps, and was about to cover Lu Wenyuan's mouth: "My lord, please be quiet, the emperor and the prince are asleep." ”

Lu Wenyuan was full of doubts, and only said that at this time, I don't know which sleep the emperor and the prince slept, so he heard Gui Xi explain in a low voice: "This morning, the emperor and the prince had breakfast, and when they saw that the weather was good outside, they went to the imperial garden to ride horses together, and they didn't come back until three o'clock in the afternoon." Both of them were so tired that they slept without lunch, and they haven't woken up yet. ”

Lu Wenyuan was shocked when he heard this: "I went after breakfast?

Gui Xi thought that Lu Wenyuan's voice was too loud, so he glanced at him with disgust and said, "But isn't it! It's all piled up on the imperial case in the main hall, and it's still the slave maid who cleaned it up." ”

Lu Wenyuan paused again and again when he heard this, and only said how good this is. The prefect of Datong asked the Ministry of Industry to support the reinforcement of the breakwater, but it could not be delayed for a moment, because the weather has warmed up now, and the spring flood of the Yellow River will come at any time. Lu Wenyuan was anxious, and hurriedly asked, "Does my father-in-law know when the emperor will wake up?"

Gui Xi shook his head and said: "This slave and maid can say for sure, the emperor has no chance of sleeping, sometimes he only sleeps for one or two hours a night, and sometimes he can sleep from afternoon to dawn the next day." Speaking of this, he glanced back at the quiet dormitory behind him, and said, "According to the slave, this time it will be the same." ”

Lu Wenyuan was shocked when he heard this, and said, "Ahhh

Lu Wenyuan thought about how the whole night's work could be delayed, and the song was sent back one day earlier, so that the people of the Ministry of Industry could have one more day to repair the fortifications, and the safety of the people along the river could be more guaranteed. I didn't care much at the moment, so I grabbed Gui Xi and said: "Father-in-law Gui, the music I sent this time is quite important, and what I did cannot be delayed for a moment, can I ask my father-in-law to go in and wake up the emperor, so that the emperor can ......sleep after approving it."

Who knew that before he finished speaking, Gui Xi was so frightened that his eyes widened, and he retreated again and again: "This can't be done, the emperor is going to be angry when he is awakened while sleeping, how many palace maids and eunuchs died on this before, my lord can spare the slaves." As he spoke, he pulled back his sleeve from Lu Wenyuan's hand, and slipped away as if the soles of his feet were oiled.

Lu Wenyuan was completely helpless, and stood in the courtyard for a while, and the night came from all directions, and the evening bell on the bell and drum tower rang, and he saw that the palace gate was about to close the next moment. Lu Wenyuan thought to himself that even if he could wait for the emperor to wake up tonight, he would not be able to knock on more than a dozen palace doors to send the decree out, so it would be better to go back to the house first. Thinking of this, he finally sighed, turned around and walked outside the palace.

It was night, Lu Wenyuan had something in his heart, tossing and turning, and he didn't sleep all night. As soon as the palace door opened the next day, he hurried into the palace. Who knew that when I asked Gui Xi, I found out that the emperor slept until midnight and woke up in the middle of the night, and drank and had fun with King Kangping all night, and did not fall asleep again until it was almost dawn.

Lu Wenyuan couldn't cry or laugh, but he couldn't help it. I waited in the courtyard until noon, and then I woke up the emperor, and watched the emperor approve the music, and went to the Ministry of Works to arrange a qiē in person, for fear of delaying unnecessary work.

However, even then it was too late. The craftsmen sent by the government and the Ministry of Industry hurried to finish the work before the spring floods, and the unreinforced embankment was washed away by the tide, and although it was so dangerous that no one was injured, all the farmland that had just been planted along the coast was flooded, and the people complained.

The terrain near Datong Mansion is high, the climate is arid, and it is not easy to reclaim farmland, but now it has been washed away by floods, and the lost fertility really does not know when it will be replaced. The livelihood of the people in the whole province and the taxes paid by the government all depend on these fertile fields, but now they are asked how to live their lives. The prefect Lu Xianming united with the local imperial history in a fit of anger, and the upper government impeached the cabinet of the current dynasty for unfavorable affairs, and the first assistant was in his position.

Lu Xianming was originally a well-known literary master in the DPRK and China today, and he wrote a bullet chapter with sharp words and hit the nail on the head, scolding all five members of the cabinet for not falling to the ground. Seeing this, the other imperial historians also followed the trend, venting their personal anger, and the impeachment of the cabinet was really like snowflakes for a while, so that Lu Wenyuan and others couldn't raise their heads, and they had to walk through the wall every day to do things in the court, like a rat crossing the street.

On this day, Yan Yong came back from the lobby of the Ministry of Rites, and as soon as he entered the cabinet, he shouted, saying that the words and deeds of the current class of officials are too much, and they are too deceitful, and they should really be suppressed and suppressed like Fan Zhefu, who is an old immortal.

Lu Wenyuan knew that he was old and stubborn, and he couldn't stand so many grievances, so he comforted him with kind words: "Lord Yan, it's just a matter of talking about your anger." It is really a good thing that these officials dare to impeach us, and only by opening up the way can we make the government clear and the country prosperous. ”

Yan Yong was so angry that his goatee trembled, and said hatefully: "They don't know the truth of the matter at all, they bite people indiscriminately, how can the spring flood burst because of our unfavorable affairs, as soon as we return, we will immediately start arranging, how can it be fast? It's really because the emperor doesn't approve the delay of the ......."

Shen Lun was so frightened that he stepped forward and covered his mouth and said, "You are really old and confused, you can say this casually? How can the emperor be the son of heaven at fault, it is all our fault." ”

Lu Wenyuan smiled and said: "Yes, it's all because I, the first assistant, am incompetent, and I can't persuade the emperor in time." ”

Yan Yong was blocked and speechless for a while, full of resentment and nowhere to vent, so he had to break Shen Lun's hand and sit down on his desk and sigh again and again.

Seeing this, Zhao Yongning answered on the side: "Forgive me for saying something rebellious, it is not a way for the emperor to always neglect his government like this, this time because he did not approve the performance and delayed the flood control, it is difficult to guarantee that it will not delay greater things next time." As he spoke, he looked at Lu Wenyuan and said, "Lord Lu has no way to make the emperor more diligent?"

Lu Wenyuan groaned and shook his head slightly, Yan Yong grabbed the conversation and said: "The emperor has become like this today thanks to Fan Zhefu, that old thing was originally for the sake of dictatorship, taking over the government, the emperor does not need to ask about everything, of course he is lazy, he can rely on it when he can do something, and he can rely on it, as if the world is not his." In my opinion, the five of us might as well resign together, so that the emperor can't find someone to rely on, and then the backlog of government affairs will be much larger, and the emperor will have to intervene in person. ”

Lu Wenyuan smiled bitterly when he heard this: "No, no." Doesn't Lord Yan hear a folk slang saying that 'if there are too many lice, don't bite people'? According to the emperor's current temperament, the more government affairs are backlogged, the more lazy he will become.

Fu Qian stopped his pen and asked, "What should I do then?"

Lu Wenyuan shook his head and said thoughtfully: "Management must be managed, but how to manage the law still needs to be considered in the long run." ”