The Queen Mother stayed in Guan Beizi's room for a long time, and I don't know how many military affairs Lu Dao said?

The door finally opened, Guan Zhuofan came out, passed on the message of the Queen Mother, called Yu'er in, and waited at the door by himself.

After a long time, the door opened again, Yu'er held it, and the Queen Mother walked out with a dignified appearance.

Guan Zhuofan respectfully asked the Queen Mother to move to the main hall, and then passed the meal.

After eating, the reward will be given.

The "reward" of Beizi Mansion is very heavy, with 1,000 taels for eunuchs and 1,000 taels for palace maids.

Luan drove back to the palace, and Beizi Mansion knelt down.

At this point, Guan Zhuofan's envoy of the "former minister" was completed, and after the Empress Dowager's ceremony came out of the wicker alley, he returned to the house.

In the yard, a plum tree blooms in the cold, and it is scorching.

Cixi's last words with himself came back to his mind.

"That aunt surnamed Lu, how beautiful is she born?"

Guan Zhuofan never expected her to ask this, and his mind spun a few times, and he actually replied like this: "It's not as good as the Queen Mother." ”

Cixi snorted and laughed: "You slip your head!" ”

sighed and said softly: "This woman, you'd better not provoke." ”

I don't think I have anything to do with her?

Cixi said to herself: "This woman is hard-working, and she is a man. Think about it, Chen Yucheng, Shengbao, Dexing, which one has a good end? ”

The voice of the Queen Mother became softer and gentler: "I'm not jealous. You want women, how many don't? Don't be mistaken. This Lu family, stay away from her. Just give her a worry-free food and clothing. ”

Snowflakes are falling. Dark incense floats. The red stamen slanted branches, the bright and incomprehensible image appeared in front of him, and Guan Zhuofan was hot and dry.

After Shengbao's death, his house was raided, Guan Zhuofan pleaded, and the court "returned the family property", and Guan Zhuofan's obligation to "Aunt Sheng" was fulfilled.

There is also an "aunt", what should I do with her?

I don't know what to do, bear with it. Let's talk about it when we come back from Shanghai.

The next day, Guan Zhuofan set off for Shanghai, using the name of "Observing the Wind and Patrolling by Order", or a minister.

Ji Lu planned to go to Tianjin first, do some investigation of the situation of the Xuan army's garrison, and then get on the boat at the mouth of Dagu and float down the sea.

Counting the days, I didn't stay in Beijing for long.

Bai's and Ming's endured tears, and Guan Zhuofan's heart was too big to go, so he diverted the topic. Tell them to start preparing for the marriage of Túrin and Xiaofu. Choose a date first, and after you come back from Shanghai. It's almost the end of the year, and as soon as the New Year passes, the two of them will get married.

On the second day of Guan Zhuofan's departure from Beijing, Cai Shouqi, the editor of the Hanlin Academy and the official of the daily lecture, made an excerpt entitled "Impeachment of the Four Matters of the King of Politics for Greed for Ink, Arrogance, Seizure of Power, and Favoritism".

Cai Shouqi's impeachment and Guan Zhuofan's departure from Beijing before and after the traces of the relationship are obvious. But Guan Zhuofan thinks that he is still "avoiding suspicion", which is purely taking off his pants and farting. Efficiency must come first now; Moreover, the military horses are clearly displayed, and they have the role of standing in force and forcing people to stand in line, so as not to have too many people at both ends of the head and rat in the future, and turn this battle into a situation of undefeated and undefeated, undead and undead.

Cai Shouqi's excerpt is sprinkled with thousands of words, and his head is opened like this, "For the current politics to be selfish, the celestial phenomena are different, people's hearts are confused, and the discussion is boiling.

Then he began to talk at length about "Celestial Phenomena".

In ancient China's political culture, "heaven and man induction" was one of the cores. "Celestial phenomena" represent God's dissatisfaction with politics on the ground, and use "visions" to warn. If the following politicians do not make corrections, God will go crazy, and the most serious thing is to change people to do it, "dynasty rotation".

Needless to say, high-level "anomalies" such as solar eclipses, lunar eclipses, and earthquakes, floods, torrential rains, heavy snowfalls, droughts, gales, fogs, hail, locust plagues, plagues, mudslides, sandstorms, and so on are also included.

In short, all natural disasters can be summed up in "celestial phenomena".

Also, thunder in winter, snow in summer, and flowers bloom out of season.

Also, when the river changes color and the spring water emerges from the ground, it is also counted.

Also, where was a "two-headed man" born, that is, the so-called "conjoined baby" in later generations, it is also counted.

This kind of nervous theory, in a certain situation, actually has its effect.

For example, in the later period of the dynasty, the financial depletion, political corruption, and the administrative capacity became more and more low, and the ability to prevent and resist disasters decreased, including the inability to build and maintain water conservancy projects, and the two main natural disasters in China, one floods and one drought, became more frequent.

In the later period of the dynasty, the turmoil increased, and the war further undermined the ability to prevent and resist disasters, and natural disasters increased substantially.

The current Qing Dynasty has entered the "late mode", and there are even signs of opening the "apocalyptic mode".

In fact, even in a peaceful and prosperous era, China is so big, how many years have there not been all kinds of natural disasters?

Therefore, as long as there is a "political need," this so-called "celestial warning" will always be grasped at all times.

Cai Shouqi suggested that this be used as a breakthrough, and Guan Zhuofan thought it was very reasonable.

Because in the theory of "heaven and man induction", the prime minister "regulates yin and yang", so since "the celestial phenomena show differences", then it is the "responsibility of the prime minister".

Who is the "prime minister" of the current dynasty? It's not a "college scholar". The "university scholar" in the late Qing Dynasty was basically just an honorary title, with a position and no real power.

The actual "prime minister" is the "foreman of the Military Aircraft Department", and he is King Gong.

Well, Mr. Yi 60, you have to be responsible for all natural disasters, including the "two-headed man" in Li's family in Luoyang.

So, what is wrong with the prime minister that makes God so unhappy?

These are the four things in the title of the excerpt, "greed for ink, arrogance, power, and favoritism".

This set of logic is very perfect, Guan Zhuofan thought, it is best not to use it on me in the future.

Of course, it is to engage in feudal superstition, but what is it to do without feudal superstition in the feudal dynasty? When I'm really in power, I'll push for science.

Cai Shouqi listed a large number of "celestial phenomena", and Cixi and Ci'an were terrified when they saw it - the two royal sisters believed this.

Hurry up and look down, what did the sixth child do, so big that there was such a big fire "above"?

The focus of the "four things of greed for ink, arrogance, power grabbing, and favoritism" is "greed for ink".

There must be evidence to impeach people for "greedy ink", otherwise there will be no lethality.

Is there any? Yes, it is the "door bag" system of Prince Gong's Mansion.

In fact, the concierge of any prince and important minister receives "door bags", but other people's "door bags" fall into the personal pockets of "gatekeepers"; And the "door bag" of Prince Gong's mansion, the palace should be "divided" from it.

This idea was thought up by King Gong's father-in-law, Gui Liang, for him. King Gong's mansion has a huge amount of expenses, and King Gong is quite bitter, so Gui Liang offered a plan, sent the "account room" to the "gatehouse" to sit, and the "red envelopes" given by the guests to the "gatehouse" were all collected first, and then part of them were returned to the "gatehouse", and the rest were left in the account room.

Those who used to give five taels have to give ten taels now. Because if you give back five taels and fall into the hands of the porter himself, there will only be two taels or three taels, this door, do you still want to go in?

Giving ten taels to the concierge will not have a better face, because it is still five taels that fall into his hands.

Everyone knows that there is such a rule in King Gong's Mansion, giving a red envelope to the concierge is equivalent to "filial piety" to King Gong, and a name can be dropped, naturally, the "market" of King Gong's Mansion "door bag" is rising higher and higher, and some people even take out a ticket of one hundred taels.

In this case, the return to the porter will be more than five taels, about ten taels or eight taels.

As a result, the "small amount of bribes" has really been turned into an open "system".

King Gong receives a number of guests every day, and they are all high-ranking officials. Most of the low-ranking officials were received by the chief of the royal palace. Many times, no one receives at all, just to come and make a fancy whistle, just to send a "red envelope" to the concierge and leave a name in the account office of Prince Gong's mansion.

Later, the situation developed to such a point: when it was time to go to the Prime Minister's National Affairs Yamen to do something, he first came to Prince Gong's Mansion to "report" and gave him a "door bag", and then went to the Prime Minister's National Affairs Yamen.

This "system" did solve the problem of King Gong's expenses, but it caused a lot of burden on many hard-working middle- and lower-level officials.

*(To be continued......)