Chapter 010: Rules of Play
"......" Bo Jiao is still in the brain down, he doesn't quite understand why his uncle was fine yesterday, and today he suddenly came to attack himself.
"Ciqi, you are the chief of police, and you should be the most familiar with the law, you can answer this question to me, immediately!" Seeing that no one spoke, Hong Tao simply ordered people directly, and the first unlucky guy was the new Imperial Police Chief Ciqi.
"It has not been repealed, and no new law has been introduced in this regard......" Ciqi saw that the emperor directly called his name, and he couldn't shrink back, so he stood up and answered the question head-on.
"Knowing the law and breaking the law! Minister Yi, you are in charge of the Imperial Internal Affairs Bureau, you come to tell me, what should be done if you blatantly violate the Imperial Secrecy Regulations, and there are no consequences yet? Hearing Ciqi's affirmative answer, Hong Tao pointed his finger at the young man who had succeeded Cixi as the head of the Imperial Supervision Department.
"Your Majesty, I don't think this is a violation of secrecy...... Those present are all high-ranking officials of the Imperial government, and should be able to vouch for the qualifications of their retinue to participate in some of the meetings. The Prime Minister's personal advisers have also agreed to join the meeting, so if you don't think it's appropriate, let them recuse themselves. Yi Yi still looked like a living dead, with no expression on his face, but the words he said were not flat at all.
"Yes, yes, yes, we didn't think it through, or let them go out first, Your Majesty doesn't have to use your liver, let's talk about this plan, I see......" Hearing Yi Yi's words, Qi Zu felt that the opportunity to make peace with the mud had come. If you get these advisors away first, it can be regarded as giving the emperor a face, and then pay attention to the documents, and this matter will be confused, anyway, the emperor doesn't come to the government building every day.
"Hey, Minister Qi, don't fight with me haha, I'm very serious. Minister Yi, according to what you mean, you can change the laws of the empire by sitting here and discussing, right? So what else is the Imperial Council for? Otherwise, you can just discuss it again and dissolve the council, and the affairs of the empire in the future will be up to the few of you! Oh, you can vouch for whomever you want, and you have to be able to attend the highest level of the empire, so I'll go to the docks now and sponsor a hundred people first, and you'll allow them to come in and have a meeting together? If you don't allow it, you suspect that I, the emperor of the empire, are not loyal to you! Vice Minister Wen, are you willing to go with me to guarantee a few hundred more people? You are a government minister, and according to Minister Yi, you should be more qualified than me, the emperor. But Hong Tao didn't even give Qi Zu's face this time, and directly pouted the old man back, and then, like a fighting, began to argue with Yi Yi again.
"I'll go! I'll go! I'll go with Your Majesty! Wen Xiaoqi usually closes his eyes when he holds meetings, as long as he doesn't talk about shipbuilding or increasing research funds for him, he won't open his eyes. When Hong Tao was the prime minister, he had this virtue, and now he still hasn't changed, but when Hong Tao came in, he had to open his eyes.
Now that he heard Hong Tao name him, he had to hurry up and express his position, he didn't understand any national policies and laws, anyway, Hong Tao was right, that was right, and if it wasn't right, it had to be right. Offended the emperor, who helped him study the steam engine, this thing doesn't look simple, but if you really want to run it and put it into production, don't mention how difficult it is. If the emperor can give him a little bit of dialing, he will be able to test a few times, dozens or even hundreds of times, and what will he wait for without holding this thick leg.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the laws of the empire are not for you to use for tricks, it is not perfect, and you have to constantly explore and supplement them; It's flawed, and you're going to have to find a way to fill it in. It's good now, our Minister of Iraq is so angry, you think it's okay, what is this? Isn't this the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty! I've been fighting with the people of the empire for more than ten years, just to let you do whatever you want here? Do you want to be this kind of emperor? I won't be myself! ”
Hong Tao didn't bother with Wen Xiaoqi, he hugged him with thick legs. However, Hong Tao's next performance surprised the people present again, this big hat was buttoned, steady and ruthless, Yi Yi's dead face was red, not excited, but frightened. He is not like other ministers, if he makes a mistake, even if it is a dereliction of duty, at most he will be dismissed from office and brought to justice. His job is destined to have only two paths, one is to become a minister, and the other is to die, or life is better than death.
Fortunately, Hong Tao did not continue to play on this issue, otherwise the ministers present could only say that they would suspend the minister Yi Yi first, who would let his idle eggs hurt to question the emperor in person.
Talking about the law with the emperor, isn't this an axe in the class, patting the conscience, this set of imperial laws, except for Hong Tao, no one dares to say that they fully understand and master all of them. There are many key points that you don't pay attention to when you don't touch them, but when you do, it's probably too late. For example, the secrecy law just now, no one thought of it, and the prime minister of the Empire had to abide by the secrecy law if he found an adviser. But if you really want to be more serious, this is indeed the case, not to mention the Imperial Prime Minister, even the Emperor of the Imperial Empire.
"You don't deserve to sit here and lead the people of the empire, you can't even manage yourself, and you still expect to run the country well? I suggest that you resign en masse, and if you are not willing, I will help you. Congratulations, you are really capable, and the first case of disconfidence in the government since the founding of the Empire is about to be born in you. And the initiator is still the emperor, you are really capable! Three days, I will only give you three days, whether to get out of your own hands or wait to be dismissed, you can then meet and discuss! But Hong Tao's next words made the officials present tremble more than the death sentence of Yi Yi, the emperor came today to serve a pot, Yi Yi is just a bird, but the emperor is holding a big troll in his hand, not only the first bird, but all the ones who don't come out will collapse.
"yes, you're honest, aren't you? I have long said not to engage in these twists and turns, if there is something to tell Your Majesty, the achievement is successful, and if you don't achieve it, you can't do it, you have to listen to it. Minister Yi, what are you talking about testing Your Majesty's bottom line? Advisor Gao, what do you say best understand His Majesty's thinking? It's also bold and aggressive, so it's honest, right? I don't like you the most for your kind of clique and petty actions in private. It just so happens that I resigned first, and I have meetings all day, and His Majesty didn't hold a meeting for half a year before, and I didn't work less than you. Wen Xiaoqi was not depressed, frightened, or confused, but was quite happy. Originally, he didn't want to be a deputy minister, but Hong Tao forced him to do it. With Hong Tao here, he didn't dare to say anything strange, but the others couldn't suppress him, even Qi Zu, one shipbuilding and one cannon, no one commanded anyone.
"Alas...... You've him off, it's not good! Actually, I think it's good to live according to the old days, I have to be open and open, get so many idlers to come, and open a few restaurants to make money? It's better to build a few more cannons and sell them. It just so happens that I'm also getting older, and I can't learn anything new, so this minister just let Xian go. Guys, I'm going first! ”
Seeing Wen Xiaoqi raise his ass and leave, Qi Zu couldn't sit still, he was also a decoration, all the copywriting work was handed over to the directors under his hands, without Hong Tao to sit in charge, every time he had a meeting, he had to explain to these people what to study first, what to study later, and why to study in order for half a day, but many times it was still not clear to explain, it was too laborious!
Isn't it embarrassing to let a hands-on person change his words. Gotcha, don't do it, just make time to go back and think more about how to get the rails more cost-effective, don't wait for Wen Xiaoqi to get the train out, you can't get the rails yourself, it's a shame for adults.
"What are you all looking at me! I didn't make this thing...... Well, even if I knew it in advance, Minister Kong also knew, and Minister Wu and Minister Yi also knew. And I didn't say that I would start implementing it right away, but it wasn't just an idea! The two ministers quit, and several advisers also looked at each other, and they had not yet come out of the panic just now. The rest of the ministers all looked at Bo Jiao, and saw that his back was cold, for fear that these people would put the responsibility on himself, the prime minister.
"I don't think Your Majesty is angry because of this incident, when he first came in, he originally wanted us to stop this matter, and he was not very upset. It was only when he saw them later that Minister Yi confronted him again, and before he could explain his reasoning, he was really angry. Whether you resign or not, I think it's time for you to check yourself. In the past, when His Majesty was there, everything was in order, no matter whether he was there or not, no one would mess up. But now, everyone has their own ideas, and every time we have a meeting, we test each other, and this atmosphere is very wrong! ”
"I'm not blaming Prime Minister Po, he has really not been idle since he took office, but what to do and what not to do is a big question. Your Majesty is right, we are indeed a little carried away, thinking that by defeating him once on the issue of opening Golden River City, we can completely replace him. Now it seems that it is still far from it. What's the matter with you? At this time, it was Li Niang who was relatively calm, and she could still carefully analyze the reason for Hong Tao's anger, which showed that her brain was not messed up. Only by knowing where the root knot is, can we find a way to deal with it. At this moment, a government worker suddenly ran to the door of the conference room, as if he was in a hurry.
"Your Majesty went to the parliament in the morning, and it is said that because of security problems, not only did he slap the table and curse people, but he also broke a window, yes, it was a pistol! The parliament has sent people to ask the government to reconsider the security issue of Golden River City and then form a proposal as soon as possible. Here's a suggestion from them, saying that they are afraid that the government will not be too busy to redraft it, which can be referred to. ”
Hearing Minister Li's words, the staff member dared to walk in, put a large envelope in his hand on the table, explained everything in the briefest words, and then quickly slipped out. The emperor had just walked from here, and although he did not shoot, his broken gong voice was heard all over the floor, and he was no weaker than in the parliament, and he actually wanted to force the entire government to resign. Now these ministers and prime ministers must be holding back the evil fire in their bellies, and they can stay away from here if they can, so as not to be affected.
(To be continued.) )