Liang Jia saw that no one spoke, and even that Tai Liangchen lowered his head and kept silent.

He continued: "If this is a warning from heaven that someone must be responsible for these things, I'm afraid everyone here won't be able to escape, right? I can issue an edict for my own crimes, but as ministers of the court, should you also blame yourself and introspect yourself? As long as each of you has one copy, I will also have the next one, how about it? ”

"The minister can take a copy of his own guilt." Tai Liangchen said out loud.

"Good. Anyone else? The guilty self and my guilty edict will be made clear to the world. ”

"Huh?" Tai Liangchen was not calm now, raised his head and looked at it in surprise.

"What? Does Lord Tai Liangchen think this is bad? My sins and edicts can be made clear to the world, but can't your sins be broken? ”

"The minister felt that this was inappropriate. The emperor is the lord of the world, and the edict is to appease the hearts of all the people......"

"Needless to say, do you agree with me?" Liang Jia interrupted him.

"Minister...... The minister did not agree with the world. ”

Tai Liangchen is not stupid, he is bright in the world, and his reputation in Shilin is over. Others will say, you Tai Liangchen is not very good at speaking, isn't he impassioned on weekdays, isn't he scolding others for being mediocre and incompetent on weekdays, why are you doing it wrong now?

Liang Jia glanced at him meaningfully and did not continue to speak.

The palace fell silent, and no one came out to speak for a while. Tai Liangchen stood in the center, wanting to go back, but the emperor didn't say, don't go back, standing here is a little embarrassing, and he was at a loss for a while.

"Your Majesty, the ministers have their own music." The one who broke the deadlock was a young official, who was quite far away, and it was estimated that he was only a five-grade official.

"What's your name? What's going on? ”

"Huang Qi, a member of the Ministry of Rites. Next month is the day for the vassal states to pay tribute to Beijing, and the Ministry of Rites has not yet decided on the chief and deputy envoys for the reception of the tributary envoys, and the emperor is still invited to decide. ”

"Does this need me to decide? Can't you do this little thing in the Ministry of Rites? Liang Jia was surprised that this guy actually pulled the topic away.

That Huang Qi was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "Back to the emperor, it's just that the vassal states that entered Beijing to pay tribute this time are a bit special......"

"What's so special? What about the Ministry of Rites? Do you need a five-grade official to speak out about the affairs of your Ministry of Rites? ”

As soon as Liang Jia's words fell, a middle-aged official stood up.

"The minister is guilty. We have not yet had a specific discussion within the Ministry of Rites on this matter, and Lord Huang took out this matter to disturb the emperor, which was a negligence of the ministers. ”

Liang Jia now knows the seven ministers of the Administration Department, and the Shangshu of the six departments are all new except for the seriously ill Niu Shangshu now, and Liang Jia is not familiar with them, and he can't even call them by name. This should be Zhou Kuifa, the new Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, who seems to be only forty years old this year, but his reputation in Shilin is already quite high.

"Oh? Lord Huang, why do you want to play such a thing in the court today? Liang Jia asked Huang Qi.

That Huang Qi didn't have any discoloration on his face, and replied with a very respectful attitude: "The minister just thinks that the vassal countries that have entered Beijing to pay tribute this time have two countries, Dongyang and Sangfan, so he informed the emperor first." ”

"What's so special about Toyo and Sanban?"

"Toyo hasn't come to Beijing for ten years to pay tribute. Sang Pan was the first time to go to Beijing to pay tribute. Huang Qi replied.

"That's it?" Liang Jia was speechless.

Huang Qi didn't know how to answer Liang Jia's question, he pondered for a while, and he said: "In recent years, there has been turmoil in the East, wars have continued, and many people have gone to the sea to become pirates. The state of Sangfan has only been in the fifth year, but its lord Sanghao is a very capable person, and the army under his command is relatively strong, and the imperial court should start to prepare for it. ”

"Didn't the Oriental Pirate Attack on Coastal Fishermen Suffer from the Administrator's Office?" Liang Jia asked Zheng Yechuan.

"Rogered."

"Why didn't you report it?" Liang Jia asked.

"The minister thinks that the pirates of the Orient and the disease of scabies are not a big deal, so he didn't present them to the royal court."

"Scabies? Zheng Aiqing, I'm afraid you underestimated them. Is Chen Yueqiang there? Liang Jia shouted towards the back of the main hall.

With Chen Yueqiang's qualifications and official position, it is estimated that he can only stand behind.

However, Chen Yueqiang was obviously not here today, and after Liang Jia shouted, Tang Sai'er beside him whispered: "Lord Chen went to Texas yesterday to arrange for the secret agent to enter the Sichuan Jinyi Guard, and he has not returned yet. ”

Liang Jia nodded, and then ordered: "You go out of the palace now to Jinyiwei, spread my will, and let Jinyiwei send a group of people to the south of Jiangsu and Zhejiang and eastern Guangdong Province to investigate the specific situation of the Oriental pirates, and send them to the capital immediately if there is news." ”

Tang Sai'er agreed, and withdrew from the palace from behind.

As for the affairs of Sang Fanguo, there is no hurry, Liang Jia has not figured out what this Sang Fan Kingdom is yet.

"Zhou Aiqing, the matter of the Ministry of Rites about the tributary chief and deputy envoys will be put on the agenda as soon as possible." Liang Jia said to Zhou Kuifa, the secretary of the ministry.

Zhou Kui bowed down to receive the order, but his face was very ugly. Huang Qi's sudden appearance in the concert took a big blow to his prestige. It stands to reason that in the matter of the Ministry of Rites, he didn't say anything about the Ministry of Rites, and a foreigner from the fifth rank actually took the lead to invite, and it was something that the Ministry of Rites could do, which was a bit unusual.

However, Zhou Kuifa had not been in office for a long time, and he was not yet fully familiar with the situation of the various officials of the Ministry of Rites, let alone which side and faction they belonged to in private.

Since the Niu Shangshu in the court did not appear again, the last suspected party formation behavior has gradually dissipated. After all, many of them are newcomers here, and everyone is still in a stage of running-in and observing each other, and whether they can cooperate or not can not be decided in a day or two, it takes a long time to observe.

"By the way, something suddenly occurred to me." Seeing that no one spoke again, Liang Jia spoke first.

Naturally, no one of the ministers answered, and they all waited for him to continue.

"Last time there was a big drought in Shandong, you were very dissatisfied with the handling of the officials in the East Factory, and you wrote to ask me to deal with the personnel of the East Factory. But you haven't thought about how the imperial court should supervise the officials in the affected areas? When they embezzled the silver taels allocated by the imperial court, and the profiteers secretly resold the disaster relief grain, and made a fortune in the country, what were you doing as the imperial court's supervisory organs, the Imperial Historical Observatory, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Dali Temple? ”

"Even if there is no major drought in Shandong, how many officials who bully and oppress the people on weekdays have been punished? As supervisory organs, the Imperial Historical Observatory, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Dali Temple are all extremely irresponsible, and they have not taken the responsibilities they should have shouldered at all. ”

"Wait for a capital offense!" The three officials of the yamen mentioned by Liang Jia knelt down in unison.