The young man stepped on the floor twice and continued: "What I'm afraid of is that the boundary under our feet is broken!" ”

"Who are the people here, let me count them, when the prime minister of the dynasty, the eight generals of Siping and the four towns, the cabinet scholars, the palace scholars, the officials of the six departments of the Shangshu Province of Zhongshu Province, and the large and small servants of the twenty-four divisions A total of more than 100 people, you are above this court, but you are all the dawn people who represent the territory of the Great Zhou and the Great Zhou!"

Li Ru was suddenly furious, and he said hoarsely: "I don't know why the grain and grass of several major military towns have been delayed on the road, and why the salaries of the major military forces have been deducted layer by layer; I don't know why there are two yuan in the land of a city, on the one hand, the rich and noble people indulge in singing and singing night and night, and on the other hand, they have nothing to support and no strengths, and there are still frozen bones on the side of the road! ”

"I don't know why Luoshui floods every year, but all kinds of governance have no effect, and every year there are countless people who have no fixed place to live! I don't know, in the past few years, why has not a single child of a poor family been able to make a name for himself in the court, only Huang Menlang, who was sent by the Guozijian to enter Beijing as an official, and tens of thousands of poor families from the school and the people, is there not even a talented champion! ”

Li Ru sighed, "You ministers with your heads down, maybe there are still people who scold me in your hearts, scold me for being mediocre, and say that I am all to blame, but I ask you, and you all raise your heads!" ”

The young Son of Heaven shouted angrily, "Raise your head! ”

The courtiers looked up one after another, some expressionless, some nervous, and even trembling all over their bodies.

"Although I have ignored the affairs of the court in the past few years, I can allocate one or two less military salaries and one less bucket of military rations! Can I allocate one less disaster relief food and take less copper money for the usual relief? I have deducted half a book from a private school, but I have not issued an edict to rebuild the disaster city? ”

"Have you ever been?!"

No one dared to answer, and some people who harbored evil intentions broke out in a cold sweat.

Li Ru suddenly turned around, and instead of going to the dragon chair, he sat on the ground, pointed to a sweaty official and asked, "Wang Yuangong, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, I ask you, have you ever been?" ”

Wang Yuangong replied with a trembling voice: "Back to Your Majesty, there has never been." ”

Li Ru sneered, "Is Wuyingdian very hot, why is Aiqing sweating so much?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty...... Minister...... The minister is weak ......"

"Then you have to pay attention to your body, don't get tired, otherwise there will be nothing to do!"

"Your Majesty Xie......"

Li Ru pointed to a bloated and wealthy official and asked, "Huang Zemao, the head of the household department, can I allocate a penny less for disaster relief food?" ”

Huang Zemao said in a low voice: "Back to Your Majesty, no." ”

"Wang Shangshu is sweating, so what are you shaking?"

"Back to Your Majesty, the old problem on my leg on a rainy day is committed."

"You also have to pay more attention to your body, otherwise you won't be able to do anything."

The young Tianzi rubbed his eyebrows, he felt a little tired, closed his eyes and said in a deep voice: "I, I haven't closed my eyes for a few days and nights, you don't need to send folds anymore about the Star Chasing Tower, those things have been presided over by the Qingyang Mountain Daotong Wang Zhike, pray for your group of loyal ministers, and pray for the Great Zhou." ”

Li Ru bit the word loyal minister very hard, and put it before the Great Zhou, which was ironic and overflowing.

Even so, some ministers with ulterior motives still secretly swore in their hearts that if they could retreat from the dynasty safely and soundly this time, they would definitely go to the Star Chasing Tower to burn a stick of incense and pray for blessings.

He said faintly: "The construction of the Star Chasing Tower did not use half of the treasury, you can ask Cheng Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry about this." ”

Cheng Chunlin muttered: "The officials of the Ministry of Industry supervised the construction of the Star Chasing Building, and did not use the state treasury. ”

Among the people who knelt on the ground in the hall, many of them still had idle doubts and did not use the treasury? How did the star-chasing tower, which is 100 feet high and can reach the heavens, be built?

Li Ru opened his eyes and stared at the group of officials whose heads were almost sour, "Do you know where the money for building the Star Chasing Tower came from?" Do you remember the last cabinet scholar who told me not a hundred but eighty times that I should not indulge in the obsession and ignore the affairs of the court, do you know? There are 200,000 taels of gold in his house alone, and a full 8 million taels of silver, are you scared, to be honest, I was also scared when I saw the records after the raid, I thought he was just a little greedy, and it would be terrible to die hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, but I didn't expect that he donated a star-chasing building to Da Zhou, you have to thank him well. ”

"That's it, or the people around me, those officials who are 108,000 miles away from me, will there be more? If I don't say it, you really think he's a loyal servant. ”

The young emperor stood up, "See, as long as there is a thorn by my side, there will be a hole in the world, if there is a group of thorns around me, then Da Zhou will die without a place to be buried, think about it, the Southern Dynasty and Western Shu are just the beginning, when the time comes, the land of Shenzhou will really sink, do you think some of you can still sleep with a wife who is twenty years younger than you?" Can you still eat and drink? Save it. I advise you to take out your heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys and wash them well, wash the blackened places, and dig them out if they can't be washed off! Wipe it out! Don't let me do it myself! ”

"I'm getting clearer and clearer now, the more I watch, the more I understand, the more I can see, when you go back to sleep at night, think about it."

After that, Li Ru threw off his dragon robe and walked out of the Wuying Hall directly.

Lu Dongshan pursed his dry lips, and he said loudly: "The dynasty is over this morning, retreat from the dynasty!" ”

The civil and military officials still did not get up.

After Zhang Xuanlin, Song Rong, Chu Hanlin, Cheng Chunlin and others took the lead in getting up and leaving, those officials with bloodless faces floated away from Wuying Hall as if they had lost their souls.

On the royal road, Zhang Xuanlin did not hook up with Song Rong for the first time, he followed Chu Hanlin, who was walking briskly, and is now a cabinet scholar.

Chu Hanlin heard someone shouting behind him, he stopped and turned around, only to see a thin old man walking towards him, with tigers and tigers under his feet, he laughed twice, "Prime Minister Zhang's body is still tough, if I walk dozens of feet quickly, my old waist will be tired." ”

Zhang Xuanlin also smiled and said: "People are in good spirits when they are happy, and Master Chu's steps just now are not slow at all." ”

"Why don't we two old guys walk briskly again?"

Zhang Xuanlin looked left and right, after retreating from the court, whether it was a person who entered the palace to listen to the court, or a person who watched the court in front of the palace, he could only leave the palace through this imperial road, and there were already dense officials on the royal road, and there were seven or eight hundred people in the eyes, almost people walking next to each other, but there was no one around the two old men.

Zhang Xuanlin understood in his heart, these hundreds of people crowded on the royal road inevitably had ears on the wall, and after walking a hundred zhang out of the royal road, everyone dispersed, much cleaner.

The two old men walked lightly, without saying a word, and walked quickly out of the royal road to a secluded pavilion.

Chu Hanlin beckoned Zhang Xuanlin to sit down.

Zhang Xuanlin asked: "Bachelor Chu doesn't hold a grudge against Zhang's behavior at the beginning?" ”

Chu Hanlin naturally knew what he was talking about, where the literati gathered, he seemed out of place, Zhang Xuanlin had never said a word to himself, explained once, he shook his head and said casually: "Prime Minister Zhang is too worried, in the position of prime minister, he must not be able to do things to guide others to make choices, if Prime Minister Zhang came to me at that time, wouldn't he agree with what the student Yang Liechen said, this is not good for Cheng, and it is not good for civil officials, to be honest, even if the prime minister comes to talk to me at that time, Chu can only say sorry, Stand a little farther away. ”

Zhang Xuanlin laughed, "Old guy, you can see it clearly, so now that I come to look for you, you are not afraid that it will be bad for me and bad for civil officials?" ”

Chu Hanlin quipped: "It's different now, now I'm a cabinet scholar, I can draft an edict with the saint and manage confidential information, Prime Minister Zhang Cheng didn't walk with me before, but now he comes to call me quickly, at most, there are some gossips about Prime Minister Zhang Cheng forming a gang outside, which is harmless." ”

"Interesting, interesting, I'm really confused, why don't I get acquainted with you early, it's really to my liking, walking with Song Rong's old horseman, two of the three sentences are-for-tat, guess what the remaining sentence is?"

"It should be that Prime Minister Zhang Cheng is satirizing General Song's war, but General Song is a straight gut and didn't hear it?"

Zhang Xuanlin nodded like a chicken pecking rice, "Yes, yes, that's right!" Every time I secretly mocked the old guy, he couldn't hear it, and sometimes I had to let him, openly mocking, and he thought that I was being sarcastic and he heard it, and even sometimes I really praised him, he thought it was sarcasm. ”

Chu Hanlin smiled and said nothing, the head of a civil official, the head of a military general, on this turbulent court, in this bloodless battlefield where you are in trouble and kicks you into the abyss, it is not easy to have this affection.

Zhang Xuanlin suddenly changed his words and asked, "What do you think of today's court?" ”

As soon as Chu Hanlin heard it, the business came, and he said with a straight face, "There are not many views, Your Majesty's words, deafening, let me feel a lot of emotion, and today's court meeting also solved the confusion in my heart, all said that the country is the use of officials, and if you can enter the country, you will have the opportunity to enter the court as an official, and the school is for the people, and the literati who come out of it, it is very difficult to be an official, at the beginning I still have a lot of complaints about this statement, and being an official is based on their own ability, how can it be said that it is much easier for my country's eunuch to be an official because he is a national scholar?" But after a long time, I realized that something was wrong. ”

"What's wrong?"

"In fact, there are Sun Siyu and Wen Liang in the Ji Academy, and its foundation is not inferior to the Guozijian, and there are countless students who are full of wealth, but no one has been able to occupy a place in the court for a long time, and today His Majesty said that he didn't know why tens of thousands of poor families did not have a champion, I suddenly understood that someone was suppressing poor students!"

"Indeed, I have heard of it, but those people suppress the Hanmen, not for the sake of the country, but for the fear of the sudden rise of the Hanmen and disrupt the lifestyle of their prosperous family.

"Shameless!"

Zhang Xuanlin waved his hand, and then changed the topic: "Then how do you feel about your former majesty?" ”

Chu Hanlin didn't think much about how this old guy was so active in thinking, he raised his eyebrows, "Don't say." ”

Zhang Xuanlin laughed, the meaning of the cabinet scholar in front of him was already obvious, he stretched out his withered fingers, pointed at Chu Hanlin, stopped laughing, sighed and said: "When you are the most embarrassed person, you don't give up on him, and when he suddenly gives you a feeling that you don't know, or a very ...... When I felt very unexpected, I was really emotional. ”

Chu Hanlin nodded, he could hear who this person was in his mouth, this kind of thing, resting on some young officials, they must not know who Prime Minister Zhang was talking about, only these people who are old and have been officials in the capital when they are young know a lot. Forty years ago, Zhang Xuanlin, who was in his early twenties, met the first emperor at the palace gate, and talked about political affairs with the first emperor for a whole night.

Zhang Xuanlin can be said to be one of the people who know the saint best, and the teacher's affection for students, Chu Hanlin is very knowledgeable, just like when the storm in Yuzhou City is about to come, everyone is waiting to see Yuzhou's jokes, but Chu Hanlin firmly believes that his students can hold Yuzhou.