Chapter 50 Proceedings of the Imperial Council
Deng Hongwen and Xu Xiuyuan entered the imperial study, and when the court meeting was about to open, they slowly walked out, and no one outside knew what they said, but after Deng Hongwen came out, he changed his previous gloomy look. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
The Great Zhou Dynasty is traditionally held once every three days, but today is a little special.
It's just because someone played at the court meeting yesterday and established the Heavenly Master Tao as the state religion of the Great Zhou.
One stone stirs up a thousand waves, and hundreds of officials have their own sayings. Yan Jie, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was the most opposed, and Yan Lao Shangshu was fifty-five years old, but his anger was no less than that of the young man, at least in this matter, he was quite angry at that time.
Yan Laoshangshu pointed at the person who played the game, blew his beard and glared at his face, and scolded directly: "As an official of the imperial court, you take the court's money, and you don't think about serving the country, and you don't want to benefit the people, you know that you collude with the people of the Heavenly Master's Dao, and you also make a big statement, respecting the Heavenly Master's Tao as the state religion, I am strictly ashamed that a villain like you is an official in the same dynasty, and the faces of all the officials have been lost by you." ā
The man was not annoyed, but asked gently: "Yan Laoshangshu, you and I are officials in the same dynasty, although the rank of the lower official is lower than yours, but he is also an official of the imperial court, the lower official just put forward a personal suggestion, you oppose it, why do you insult the lower official so much." ā
Yan Jie sneered: "I shouldn't be scolding you, if you talk nonsense again, I will beat you again, do you believe it or not?" ā
"You...... You! The man was annoyed, but he was silent.
In this way, the originally planned rhythm was disrupted by the strict festival, and he could only temporarily stop and find another opportunity.
After that, someone said that the flood in the Yangjiang River basin was flooded, and the old Shangshu of Yanjie took advantage of the topic to play, pointing to Sang and scolding Huai and said: "According to the old minister, this rainstorm lasted for nearly ten days, there must be heresy, it must be that the court mixed with demons came in, and the heavens sent a warning." ā
Who the demon in Yan Laoshangshu's words refers to is naturally self-evident. I have to say that Yan Jie's words completely caught that group of people off guard, and even annoyed.
The ancients have always believed in these mysterious things, and there have often been kings who have issued edicts because of too many natural disasters. If Yan Jie is allowed to put the hat of this demon on it, it will be basically impossible for anyone who wants to mention the matter of respecting the Tao of the Heavenly Master as the state religion in the future.
Uncle can bear it, but aunt can't bear it.
So, a good court meeting turned into a verbal battle between you and me, and in the end it turned into a vegetable market shrew scolding the street, and even the other party's ancestors were pulled out. As for the face of the imperial court officials, they have long been thrown out of the clouds.
Emperor Zhao Yunqi of Daxing looked at the farce below, his head was dizzy, and there was no appearance of a court official. Who, you say, what are you doing with his mother? And you are a strict old thing, if it weren't for the fact that you were promoted by the emperor, and you were old, you hit me in the palm when you sacrificed to the sky, I would have removed you a long time ago.
Hey, what do you want to do with your sleeves, you have to fight with someone at such an old age?
After watching it for a while, Zhao Yunqi was a little bored, how could a good dynasty be so crooked, Zhao Yunqi glanced at Deng Hongwen, but Deng Hongwen pretended not to see, squinted his eyes, looked at his nose, and stood there pretending to be asleep.
Zhao Yunqi was speechless, okay, you can do it one by one.
"Ahem!"
Zhao Yunqi coughed lightly, but now that the court is so noisy, except for a few people, the rest of the people can hardly hear it, but it has intensified and made more trouble.
Thereupon......
"Ahem, ahem!"
Deng Hongwen finally opened his eyes that seemed to be sleepy, and asked loudly, "Your Majesty, but is you sick?" ā
Looking at the group of unknown officials below, Zhao Yunqi said angrily: "Retreat from the dynasty and discuss it tomorrow!" ā
In this way, the turmoil of this battle finally came to an end with Zhao Yunqi's departure.
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With the arrival of hundreds of officials one after another, the court meeting was announced to be officially started, and the salute was completed according to the rules. But no one took the lead in speaking out, and it was two extremes from yesterday's big quarrel.
Zhao Yunqi was a little unaccustomed to such a situation, and asked suspiciously: "Don't all the Qing families have anything to say?" ā
Quiet, quiet.
The old eunuch next to him sang playfully: "If there is something to start, there is nothing to retreat." ā
Finally, Deng Hongwen stood up, "The minister has something important to report." ā
Although he knew what Deng Hongwen was going to say, our Daxing Emperor still nodded qualifiedly.
"Speak."
Deng Hongwen said: "I received an urgent report from Anyang last night, saying that the continuous heavy rain in the past ten days has caused the Yangjiang River to burst, and seven of the nine counties under its jurisdiction have been flooded, resulting in nearly 200,000 people being homeless. In addition, Huaizhou Mansion and Jianning Mansion also have tens of thousands of people affected by the disaster, adding up to nearly 100,000 people. ā
Wow~
As soon as the words were finished, many people had already begun to talk to each other.
Including the number of people affected by yesterday's disaster, it is almost nearly 400,000. In the more than 100 years since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, there has never been such a major disaster, and even some people have begun to feel that Yan Laoshangshu said about evil yesterday.
As for those who were originally going to mention the state religion again today, they kept their mouths tight, and no one spoke, for fear that one of them would accidentally implement this hat.
Zhao Yunqi frowned, and asked with concern: "Is there a way to deal with it?" ā
Deng Hongwen said according to what he said before: "In the past, disaster relief was nothing more than sending money and grain. This year, the big week is quite smooth, and the grain in the Changping warehouse is also rich, but this grain is not worried, and the rest is a matter of money. ā
Zhao Yunqi asked Huang Yiyun, "Can the household still get the money?" ā
Unexpectedly, Huang Yiyun, the head of the household, did not cry poor, but changed his previous style and said: "Although the road was built and dug in the past few months, the treasury was almost emptied, but fortunately, Songjiang Mansion escorted a batch of silver into Beijing last month. Although the money is not much, more than 100,000 yuan is still taken out. ā
"Deng Aiqing, have you calculated how much money is needed for this disaster relief?"
Deng Hongwen was a little happy in his heart, according to his assumption, it would be good if the household could pay 100,000 taels of silver, but he didn't expect that there would be more words, which was a little unexpected.
"Back to Your Majesty, before the minister went to court, he had already estimated that at least 150,000 taels of silver would be needed." Since there are more words, Deng Hongwen has no reason to say more, to be honest, silver is indispensable for disaster relief.
Zhao Yunqi looked at Huang Yiyun again, which meant that he couldn't get 150,000 taels.
Huang Yiyun said with a smile: "Since Prime Minister Zuo already has the rules in his heart, the household department will never do such a thing as delaying and retreating, as long as His Majesty gives an order, 150,000 taels of silver can be escorted to the Yangjiang disaster area at any time." ā
Not. Zhao Yunqi nodded with satisfaction, and couldn't help but sigh a little in his heart, if only things could be so smooth every time the court meeting was discussed.
"Now that the money has been settled, who should be sent to take charge?"
PS: The first one is served, after eating, and then the second chapter!