Chapter 55: Righteousness

On the streets of Chang'an City, there are many beggars and refugees dressed in single clothes and stepping barefoot on the snow, and they are all gathering in the direction of Anhua Gate and Jinguang Gate.

These people gathered here because the prime minister released the news that those who came here could receive a set of clothes and a bowl of hot porridge after passing the official registration.

It was Yan Zhenqing and Li Shizhi who presided over these things, and the two of them not only opened their own treasury and let these victims eat a mouthful of hot food in winter, but also joined forces to blackmail the officials of other treasury with abundant food.

Yan Zhenqing has been busy with soup soup these days, many things have been piled up on the desk, and he has not dealt with them, and he has finished these things, the first snow, these victims have come over, at least they will not freeze to death on the streets, and the rest will be supported by the national treasury.

Looking at the dim and thick clouds, Yan Zhenqing exhaled a long breath of heat, I really hope that there will be less snow this winter, and I don't know if there will be such a situation outside other states and counties, a heavy snow has passed, and I don't know how many innocent people will die, where are these problems? Where do the displaced people come from?

Sighing heavily, the official of the people walked into his own mansion, came to the front of the case, and began to review some excerpts, when he saw the excerpts of the report on the completion of the princess's mansion, Yan Zhenqing's hair was all open, and there was nowhere to vent his anger, and the book case was blown away, and the servant standing next to him was so shocked that he quickly knelt down.

Yan Zhenqing clenched her fists, picked up the inkstone that fell to the ground, picked up a pen and wrote a letter to impeach the princess. Riding a horse and galloping towards the imperial city, he first went to check the treasury, and when he saw the empty appearance of the treasury, he was even more angry, a pair of fine eyes were round, and he walked past Zhou Tong who was drenched in cold sweat with a gust of wind, and found Gao Lishi, and learned that when the saint was soaking in the hot springs in the Huaqing Palace in Lishan, he immediately said goodbye to Gao Lishi, and quickly whipped his horse and rushed out of Jiaxing Gate.

That night, in Huaqing Palace, Li Longji and Yang Yuhuan bathed in a pool.

It was only snowing outside, the hot spring pool was steaming white, Yang Yuhuan was only in his twenties, bathing with the king, the peach blossoms on his face were light, snuggling up to Li Longji's side, and his plump and graceful body loomed in the rising white air.

Li Longji hugged the soft fragrant jade beside him tightly, and expressed his feelings to the concubine, "I wish to be like a winged bird, and I will live and fly with the jade slave"

"The jade slave is willing to fly with His Majesty, sleep together and manage the branches, forever"

When Li Longji was talking to Concubine Ai, a palace maid outside the screen reported that Dr. Yan asked to see me.

It was late at night, and I happened to take a bath with a beauty, and I was ready to do the joy of fish and water in this bath, but I was disturbed, and the nameless anger in my heart suddenly rose, and I scolded the palace maid.

Frightened, the palace maid knelt down and begged for mercy, but who knew that the report angered His Majesty.

Yang Yuhuan's eyes were blurred, exuding infinite charm, he was a woman's heart, and he had pity, so he hooked Li Longji's neck and whispered some good words in His Majesty's ear to intercede for the palace maid.

Li Longji was coaxed to be happy by the concubine, so he spared the palace maid and asked her to tell Yan Zhenqing, wait!

Yan Zhenqing looked at the palace maid and there were tears in the corners of her eyes, the palace maid said that His Majesty asked him to wait, and he didn't care so much, he was angry in his heart, and he was determined to play this princess who protected the country fiercely!

By the time Li Longji and Concubine Ai came out of the bath, an hour had passed, and at this hour, Yan Zhenqing was standing at the door of the bath, drinking the northwest wind, waiting for the saint to come out.

Seeing the sage come out, he quickly handed the text to Li Longji.

Li Longji originally thought it was a big deal, but when he saw it, it was a twist and turn in the impeachment of the princess who protected the country, and his anger had only disappeared before, but now he was annoyed again. After Li Longji finished reading it, his originally comfortable mood was depressed again.

Yan Zhenqing thought that the sage had finished reading it, so he opened his mouth to state the hardships of the victims outside, and counted that the cost of building the mansion of Princess Chen Huguo was too much, and the entire treasury was empty, how could it be to protect the country like this!

Li Longji took a deep breath and vetoed Yan Zhenqing's impeachment, saying that she saved the life of today, is it better than a year's treasury for 'me'?

Seeing Yan Zhenqing chattering, he directly dismissed his official and asked him to go home and stay. Although he is angry, he still knows that this Yan Zhenqing is thinking about the country, but the princess who protects the country is not wrong, the construction of the mansion was approved by him personally, although he took it from the treasury, it didn't matter if it was exceeded, it saved his life, and it saved the Tang Dynasty!

Yan Zhenqing's chest was congested, he didn't stay in the post station in Lishan, against the night wind, rode into the darkness, he was disappointed not by the dismissal, but by the fact that the saint could no longer listen to the words of the contrary, it was not necessary to abolish the princess of the country, at least let her know that there are still many homeless people outside Chang'an, and know the suffering of the people!

Alas, the heavy sigh with the call of the winter wind at night regrets outside this warm Li Mountain, regret in the mouth of this loyal minister.

At night, Yan Zhenqing walked on the quiet and indifferent streets of Chang'an, followed by the bad guy Qingyu.

He walked and walked, and in this white snow, he saw a dark figure lying on the ground, and went up to check it, it was a starving beggar, and without saying a word, he carried the cold and hard corpse to the horse. The corpse fell because it was frozen hard, and with the help of Qingyu, it was fixed on horseback and walked towards the location of the mansion.

Qingyu knew this high-ranking official, it was Yan Qingchen, the imperial historian, and the block calligraphy written was called steel and iron bones, exuding a heroic righteousness, but she didn't understand why such an honest and honest official would be so depressed.

On the second day, Yan Zhenqing rode a horse to Qujiangchi, outside the palace of the princess of the country.

Take off the black gauze hat on her head and throw it on the ground, Yan Zhenqing looked at the magnificent princess's mansion door, as well as the plaque that exuded righteousness, and laughed self-deprecatingly in her heart.

took off his purple robe and threw it to the ground. The north wind blew in a hurry, and it did not dare to whip this majestic and righteous steel and iron bone.

Yan Zhenqing ignored the two princess guards guarding the door, lifted the cold stone, and smashed it towards the plaque of the princess's mansion, smashing a scolding moth!

The princess's guards didn't dare to stop this angry god with all his beard and hair, and watched him smash the princess's mansion down.

The plaque of the princess's mansion fell to the ground and fell into two sections, and the princess's personal guards hurriedly ran in to say goodbye.

The bad handsome man standing behind Yan Zhenqing watched this scene quietly, waving his hand to block the four commanders who wanted to speak.

Squeaky jumped on the shoulders of the bad handsome, the little paws stroked the beard on both cheeks, felt the cold wind invade, and climbed down the shoulders of the bad handsome into his arms.

The bad handsome grabbed the little squeak who liked to stick to him, put it back in Qingyu's hand, and continued to watch Doctor Yan scold the princess angrily.

After Wu Yueya got the report, she heard the scolding at the door, this voice was a little familiar, it seemed to be Yan Zhenqing?

When I came to the door, I confirmed that it was Yan Zhenqing, scolding herself for being a moth? Wu Yueya was confused, stood opposite Yan Zhenqing, and listened quietly, saying that she had built the princess's mansion and hollowed out the treasury, worked the people and lost money, and now she was starving all over the field and no one cared about her, as a princess who protected the country, did she ever think about the people?

I see, Wu Yueya remembered that Xu Zhucheng said that her design reduced a lot of manpower and material resources, and saved a lot of money compared to his original plan, why did Dr. Yan scold and hate himself so angrily?

She felt that something was strange, but she didn't know where it was, and when Yan Zhenqing scolded and coughed a few times, Wu Yueya asked Xiaochun to bring some tea and let Yan Zhenqing drink tea to quench her thirst.

Yan Zhenqing unceremoniously took the tea, took a few sips, and stated in front of the princess that the princess was not, and when she was excited, she inevitably scolded a few sour angers.

Two hours passed, and Yan Zhenqing, whose voice was slightly hoarse, continued to say that the princess was not in front of the mansion, and her stomach was rumbling in protest.

Wu Yueya didn't leave, quietly listening to this Doctor Yan who straightened his spine and scolded him, shouldn't the so-called loyal ministers be like this? I wanted to go up and explain the explanation, but suddenly I felt that I might not be able to explain these things in a few words, so I had to continue to listen to the other party's criticism.

Let Wan'er set up the food table and sit on the couch, set up a stir-fried dish, walked up to invite Yan Zhenqing to sit down, poured wine for him, saw that he was not wearing a coat, and his snot slipped out, and put his cloak on him.

Later, I asked Xiaochun to get a coat and put it on for Dr. Yan so as not to get cold.

Yan Zhenqing said while eating, princess, you shouldn't be like that, and gradually her voice lowered, and the scolding turned into persuasion, and finally left the princess's mansion.

Wu Yueya also noticed that the bad people who followed Yan Zhenqing originally asked them to come and have some food, but they were refused.

After packing up the food table, Wu Yueya found that the black gauze hat on the ground also had a purple robe, and she faintly felt that the problem was a bit big.

On the way back to the city, Qing Yu was puzzled and asked Zhang Heng why the princess was not angry.

Zhang Heng replied, "This is to repay grievances with virtue, princess, you are a generous person, you should publicize this matter, don't take sides." ”

"Let's just say that Yan Zhenqing angrily scolded the princess's mansion for hollowing out the treasury, regardless of whether the people live or die, the princess repays her grievances with virtue and gives tea to listen to the scolding!"

A few days later, it was rumored on the street that the princess's mansion was giving porridge, and anyone who had a public inspection could come to receive a bowl of hot porridge and a cotton coat.

The bad people publicized again, saying that the princess who protects the country knows what is going on, and she was scolded by Yan Zhenqing to wake up, and she will change it when she knows her mistakes, and protect the country and the people!

Immediately afterwards, the prince of the East Palace also went out of the palace to give porridge to save the people.

For a while, the wind and snow could not hide the warmth in Chang'an City.

Ten days later, Li Longji returned to the city, listened to Li Linfu say that Yan Zhenqing scolded the princess's mansion angrily, and in anger, he issued an edict to dismiss Yan Zhenqing's imperial historian, demote him to the plain guard, and take office immediately!

(End of chapter)