Waiting for Yun Xi to walk in, Qi Tai immediately knelt down and said, "Chen Qi Tai has seen Your Majesty, long live!" As he spoke, he kowtowed heavily.

"Aiqing, get up." Yun Xi hurriedly said, as if he was still thinking about reaching out to help. He stretched out his hand halfway before he retracted it and motioned to the eunuch beside him to help.

The moment he saw Qi Tai just now, he suddenly realized that he hadn't met Qi Tai in private for more than a year or almost two years, and this was the first minister he had trusted the most and the first minister beside him, so he couldn't help but move his mind and forget about the thing he had just thought about giving him a dismissal. It was only after the hand was stretched out that he reacted.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Qi Tai said, and then got up and stood in front of Yun Xi.

Yun Xi coughed lightly a few times and said, "Qi Aiqing, I don't say much, I just ask you, why is the document requesting the allocation of money from the Gezhi Court not approved?" I remember that I sent someone to tell you that the money and food of Gezhiyuan will be lenient, unless the amount is huge, otherwise you will be allowed here, and then it will be good to mention a little in the compromises to me. ”

"Besides, even if you think the amount is large, you should ask me about it, or let Yang Shiqi ask me for my approval before granting permission, how can you insist on not allocating money?"

"Your Majesty, the minister is stupid, but on the tenth day of the first month, Gezhi asked for appropriation? The minister agreed, and did not refuse to allocate money; Or is it the sixth day of junior high school? But that time, the envoy told the envoy of the Yang Yuan that this matter had to ask His Majesty's permission, and then there was no follow-up, how could the minister be blamed? Although Qi Tai has decided to admit his mistake honestly, he still has to distinguish what is wrong.

"You're still shirking!" Hearing Qi Tai's words, Yun Xi's anger came up again, and he said in an accentuated tone: "It's not the letter of the first tenth, and it's not the previous one." After Yang Shiqi reported this to me, I rejected it and asked him to go back and redraft it. It's this one of the last few days! Yang Shiqi himself said that on the 17th, he wrote to the household department, but the household department rejected it, and he ran to the household department several times and met Shaanxi Shi Langzhong, but this Langzhong repeatedly shirked it, and had to give me a discount today! ”

"Seventeenth?" Qi Tai said: "Your Majesty, the minister has not seen the text of Gezhiyuan on the 17th and the next few days, nor has he heard the report of the Shaanxi Division. ”

"Haven't you heard of it?" Yun Xi raised his voice and was about to refute it, but suddenly thought: "Qi Tai is my cronie, even if he has been a little unable to keep up with the situation in the past two years, he will not deceive me." ’

"Can Aiqing guarantee that what she said is correct?" Yun Xi asked.

"The minister would never dare to lie in front of His Majesty." Qi Tai said categorically.

"Okay." Yun Xi said this, turned around and walked to the door, and whispered a few words to Wang Xi behind him, Wang Xi bowed slightly, turned around and left the side hall.

Yun Xi reached out and took a book from the shelf, and said to Qi Tai: "What book does Aiqing like to read?" ”

"Please give your majesty a copy of the "Historical Records" to the ministers." Qi Tai Dao.

Yun Xi took out the "Historical Records" from the bookshelf and handed it to him, thought of something, and said with a smile: "In the past, when you were an official of the Eastern Palace by my side, you liked to read the "Historical Records", especially the pre-Qin paragraph. But in fact, many of the records in this section of the pre-Qin period were written by Sima Qian, and there is no source at all. ”

"Your Majesty, although it is indeed difficult to find the source of some records in this section of the pre-Qin period, Taishi Gong's inference is reasonable and may not be wrong." Qi Tai also smiled.

Yun Xi said a few more words to him, and suddenly realized that he was still suspicious of Qi Tai at this time, so he coughed hurriedly, stopped talking, and sat down to read. Qi Tai also half sat in his chair and watched.

I don't know how long it took, Wang Xi walked in, glanced at Qi Tai, leaned next to Yun Xi and whispered: "Your Majesty, the Metropolitan Procuratorate has verified just now that Shaanxi Shilangzhong did not report this matter to Qi Shangshu, but he himself was very disgusted with Gezhiyuan, so he suppressed it. ”

"The servant also asked the guards to inquire about the Yang Academy, and learned that the Yang Academy's envoy did not dare to disturb Qi Shangshu with such a thing because of his low grade, so he never said anything about it these days even if he met Qi Shangshu on the road by chance."

"You're doing a great job." Yun Xi praised him in a low voice, closed the book, walked to Qi Tai's side and smiled at him: "Sure enough, I blamed Qi Qing." Qi Qing really wouldn't be so lazy about what I confessed. ”

Qi Tai hurriedly stood up and saluted Yun Xi: "Your Majesty, the ministers know that Your Majesty's arrangements are very meaningful, and even if they fail to understand for a while, they will never deliberately delay Your Majesty's affairs." ”

"Qi Qing, your sycophant is very smooth." Yun Xi sat down next to him and smiled.

"Your Majesty, the minister is not a sycophant." Qi Tai said very frankly.

He really wasn't deliberately slapping on the back. Although this is said to be happy, it also means to coax Yunxi to be happy, but it is also the truth. Yun Xi has carried out a lot of reforms in recent years, and there have been reforms that have achieved initial results, among which the most praised by Qi Tai is to replace officials with officials and police to replace service, in his opinion, it can be said that the elimination of the ills that have been passed down for thousands of years is very good.

He did not approve of other reforms, such as the establishment of the Department of Culture and Propaganda in the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, but later he also understood Yunxi's intentions and knew that he had a clear idea.

Therefore, he thinks that Gezhiyuan will definitely not be this yamen set up by Yun Xi because of his 'arrogance and lasciviousness' or 'plaything', and it is about a place to study weapons, although he also thinks that the combat effectiveness of the army does not lie in one or two advanced weapons, but it is also a serious matter, so he will not secretly set up stumbling blocks.

Qi Tai vaguely said his thoughts to Yun Xi, and Yun Xi immediately sighed: "You old ministers of mine still know me!" "Qi Tai, who have been officials by his side since the twenty-fifth and sixth years of Hongwu, have spent much longer with him than others, not to mention that when he was the grandson, there were few things, and there were many times when he had a lot of political problems with the Donggong officials beside him, and they would unconsciously bring out some of their own ideas, so their grasp of his mind was much stronger than that of other officials.

"If only the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty could be an official by my side for ten or eight years like you. I don't have to work so hard. ”

"Your Majesty, there are a lot of things to do now, how can you have all these times to discuss government affairs with ministers and others like you did back then." Qi Tai laughed.

"I know, too, but I just said it casually." Yun Xi said.

They talked a little more, and Qi Tai was about to get up and take his leave. But he suddenly thought of something again, and said to Yun Xi: "Your Majesty, even if Your Majesty has a lot of things to do now, you can discuss the government and politics with young talents, just like with ministers in the past." Older ministers are not easy to change, but young people are more receptive to His Majesty's ideas. ”

"You're right, I know." Yun Xi replied casually, and he was going to accept his farewell.

But at this moment, he suddenly thought of something, and stood in place and was silent for a moment, until Qi Tai reminded him to ease up and promise.