With a "snap", Yang Juan, who was sitting in the master's seat, put down the food chopsticks in his hand.

The rest of the officials and the students present also quickly put it aside, and the people were all waiting for the lecture of the Zhongshu Shilang, and the huge hall was full of silence, and no one dared to eat food.

Gao Yue also put it down, took the opportunity to find out the exquisite little pastries given to him by the Red Peony Pavilion, and hurriedly lowered his head and secretly ate two bites, because the food on the dining table was too poor.

"Shuo Fangzhang's secretary Chen Huiguang, is he there?" Yang Juan asked.

Soon I saw that in the seat, an official bowed his hand, saying that the lower official was here, and said that the original Xiangguo birthday, the king of Fenyang should go to the banquet in person, but because Mrs. Huo Guo went, the county king and the eight sons and seven sons-in-law were still in the mourning period, so I was sent to come, and I also looked at Xiangguo Haihan.

Yang Juan didn't care about this, he frowned, "Last year, the King of Fenyang entertained the courtiers in the Qinrenfang Mansion, and a meal cost 200,000 yuan, is there such a thing?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the officials present all lowered their heads and were embarrassed, and Chen Huiguang, who replaced Gao Ying as Guo Ziyi's secretary, was even more embarrassed in the face of this question.

But Yang Juan is this style, he has always been jealous and outspoken, and he dares to judge Guo Ziyi, the king of Fenyang, in public, and he is the only one in the Manchu Dynasty.

This is also the reason why Emperor Daizong finally appointed Yang Juan as the prime minister.

"Yes, yes." Chen Huiguang is unavoidable.

"Is Jingzhao Mansion Shaoyin Du Ji coming?"

Another official hurriedly replied that it was here.

Before the words fell, Yang Juan slapped the food chopsticks heavily, which frightened all the officials at the banquet and trembled, "Jingzhao Mansion has done a good thing in the past two years!" specially sent the sons of officials and nobles to take the Jinshi examination, and claimed that eight out of ten people must be selected, so that the students of Guozijian had no talent to learn, but they repeatedly fell to the rank, so that some people died of heartache because of the lower rank. ”

It turned out that the news of Zhang Tan's tragic death had reached Yang Juan's ears.

Na Du Ji just lay on the seat and trembled, letting Yang Juan count down, not daring to reply half a sentence.

"In addition, you Da Yin travels every day, and the entourage is dressed in splendid clothes, no less than two or three hundred riders, shouting at the official streets of Chang'an City, do you know what it means to disturb the people and what is extravagance?" When Yang Juan said this, he was so angry that his white beard shook rhythmically.

"Obeying the order, Da Yin was unable to come to the banquet because he had to go to the delivery courtyard of Daming Palace on a double day, and he immediately conveyed the meaning of Xiang Ye to Da Yin after he went back, but to what extent was it withdrawn, and I hope Xiang Ye will make it clear."

"Only ten horsemen are left, that is, tomorrow, can it be done?"

"Dare to disobey!" That Jingzhao Shao Yin Duji hurriedly sang the promise.

Wow, Yang Juan is really majestic, and Gao Yue, who witnessed all this in the back, both admired and envied - sure enough, being the prime minister in the Tang Dynasty was really above ten thousand people under one person.

Then Yang Juan asked again, "Cui Zhongcheng." ”

At this time, a middle-aged official didn't wait for Xiangguo to say anything, he walked out and bowed down in front of Yang Juan's case, this person was Cui Kuan, the middle of the imperial history, only to see Cui Kuan said directly, "Xiangguo, a certain brother has a house in the south of Tongji Fang, the first name is Yuetang, it is already luxurious, and then after the beginning of spring, it will be destroyed by craftsmen, and all wood and stone materials will be sent to the imperial city for free!" ”

Oh, it turns out that the Changle Po Yuetang I saw yesterday is the family of this Cui Zhongcheng's elder brother.

Liu Demu leaned over and introduced, "This Cui Zhongcheng's brother is amazing, he is the envoy of the Xichuan Festival, the scholar of the school and the servant of the school who shot Cui Ning, he has been in Shu for ten years, and his family wealth is more than hundreds of millions!" ”

Yang Juan laughed, he stroked his beard, squinted his eyes and said to Cui Kuan, "In the past two years, the people of Chang'an City have had insufficient water every year, in addition to the impact of the spring drought, a large reason is that the dignitaries and nobles have erected water mills (i.e., water mills) on various canals in the city to reduce water power and block the channels. Originally, I wanted to ask you Cui to destroy your family's five water pipes and set an example for the hundreds of officials in the court......"

"The moon hall must be flat, and the water will be destroyed!" Before Yang Juan finished speaking, Cui Kuan immediately twisted his eyebrows, waved the sleeves of his robe, and said very imposingly.

Yang Juan nodded with satisfaction, then came down softly, raised the food chopstick, and said to everyone Eat, eat, eat.

Many officials who went to the banquet laughed reluctantly, and also raised their food chopsticks to each other and persuaded each other, let's eat, let's eat.

But they are used to eating and drinking, they can eat there! Gao Yue looked at them, grinning and in pain, and Yang Juan personally picked up a few servings of wild vegetables, put them in his mouth and chewed them slowly, chewing and chewing, and then cried again.

Xiangguo cried like this, and the officials didn't know why, so they were so anxious that they stopped, and tears were about to come out.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I, Yang Xuan, still think that I am thrifty on weekdays, but I didn't expect to eat the food of Guozijian in person today, and I know what a shabby and miserable life the protégé of the Son of Heaven has lived all these years!" The more Yang Juan spoke, the more excited he became, the more sad he became, and tears poured down his wrinkled face.

All the officials immediately wept, eager to be more sad than Xiangguo,

At this time, Cui Kuan turned around again and proposed on the spot, "Please allocate the monthly hand-effort money of officials above the sixth grade in the capital to Guozijian for kitchen materials." ”

As soon as Cui Kuan said this, the other officials responded on the surface, and their hearts were full of "MMP" voices.

The hand power class was originally a kind of conscription in the Tang Dynasty, that is, the requisition and distribution of people to serve the officials and lords, the people who were assigned to the Beijing officials were called Fangge and servants, and the people who were matched to foreign officials were called Bai Zhi and Zhiyi, in addition to the various miscellaneous services such as morale, battle, family affairs, and doormen, the main task was to carry the sedan chair, fan fan, personal guard, watch the gate, and send tea to the clothes, etc.; This was originally a fixed welfare system, but with the development of the commodity economy, firstly, there was no need for so many servants to be officials, and secondly, the common people did not want to be requisitioned and sent to delay their work, so the Tang government since the Kaiyuan Tianbao period, simply transferred all the "hand labor lessons" from active service to contributions—that is, the people of Gyeonggi and the prefectures and counties directly paid the "hand labor tax" to replace labor, and this money was also distributed to Beijing officials and foreign officials as part of the official salary.

Now Cui Kuan openly wants to give the money for the hand-work class to Guozijian as cooking materials, this, this is simply, generous to us, it will become the beauty of your Cui family, anyway, your Cui family does not rely on officials to eat!

But for Cui Kuan's proposal, Yang Juan greatly agreed, praising the Cui family for being worthy of being the descendants of the Boling Cui family, and the family style was really good.

In an instant, Jingzhao Shaoyin Duji also turned out, also bowed down, and took the initiative to ask, "After that, Jingzhao Mansion will send Juzi to the Ministry of Rites to take the exam, and if you send ten people, you will first select five people from the Guozi Prison, and if you send twenty people, you will first select ten people from the Guozi Prison - you can't let the protégé of the Son of Heaven be wronged." ”

Gao Yue thought to himself, soon, Chen Huiguang, the secretary of the King of Fenyang, will also be transferred out.

Sure enough, Chen Huiguang really bowed down in front of Yang Juan's case, saying that after he went back, he would advise the King of Fenyang and donate 5,000 yuan to repair the Lu Shengren Palace and various halls and buildings of the Guozijian.

"Very good, if the King of Fenyang has such a good deed, other important ministers in Beijing will enthusiastically respond! When Wang Jin was on the road before, he instigated the holy lord and the envoys of various festivals to give a large amount of money and build Buddhist temples, and countless beautiful fields in Gyeonggi were swallowed up and occupied by temples and shrines. Immediately, they must be returned one by one and used for the needs of official fields and school fields. ”

As soon as Yang Xuan's words came out, the entire hall was overjoyed.