"The minister comes to Zongdao / Yuan Chonghuan / Wang Zaijin, knock to see the emperor, long live my emperor, long live, long live. www.biquge.info"After the three ministers saw Xiao Mu, they naturally still had to bow down.

"You love Qingqing, you don't have to be polite." Xiao Mu behaved well this time, and announced the exemption in advance without letting the three ministers finish that set of etiquette.

"Your Majesty." Only then did the three of them stand up respectfully.

"I don't know what the emperor has summoned his ministers to do?" Lai Zongdao, as the head of the cabinet, was the first to ask.

"Huh." Xiao Mu laughed at first - anyway, Lin Yi was not there at this time, Xiao Mu could use the expression "hehe" unscrupulously, and then said, "It's the middle of summer, I heard that the scenery of the coal mountain is beautiful, and I specially invited a few Aiqing to watch, I wonder if Aiqing is intentional?" ”

A few people who came to Zongdao were stunned at first when they heard this, and they felt a little inexplicable about Xiao Mu's words - after all, they all knew what the coal mountain was like, although it had a "mountain" name, but in fact it was just a small dirt slope in the north of the imperial city, and they really couldn't think of any "beautiful" scenery that could make the emperor so tempted.

However, even if there is some doubt about the emperor's aesthetic level in his heart, he must not be able to show it on the surface, after all, the question of whether this scenery is beautiful or not is originally a matter of opinion between the benevolent and the wise, since the emperor has said that the scenery of the coal mountain is beautiful, that is, it is beautiful, and it is impossible for any person with a normal level of intelligence to disobey the emperor's will on this kind of issue.

So when they came to the sect, they replied in unison, "It's an honor to wait." ”

"That's good, so let's go, shall we?" Xiao Mu saw that the courtiers readily agreed to his proposal, and he was naturally very satisfied - after all, he himself knew that the coal mountain actually did not have any beautiful scenery to see, so it was undoubtedly just a pretext of his, but now it seems that his pretext was accepted by the Lai Zongdao as a matter of course.

muttering in his heart the aesthetic level of the ministers of the Ming Dynasty, with a sense of superiority over aesthetics as a traveler in later generations, Xiao Mu followed them out of the main hall and set off in the direction of Coal Mountain.

Walking on the road, of course, Xiao Mu and the three courtiers also had to talk about some court affairs, because the king of the military department was in Jin, and Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Jiliao, were all present, they naturally talked about the situation in Liaodong, which is obviously also a matter of course, after all, even if Xiao Mu wants to talk about the problem of the southwest toast, then except for the cabinet chief assistant to come to Zongdao, the other two must have nothing to say, of course, in fact, Xiao Mu himself knows nothing about the problem of the southwest toast.

Along the way, Xiao Mu listened to Yuan Chonghuan and Wang Zaijin talk about their respective views on the defense of Liaodong, and the two still had some disagreements and arguments from time to time, while Lai Zongdao mediated and took into account the overall consideration, giving full play to the role of a cabinet chief assistant, while he himself did not have any views - after all, compared with Yuan Chonghuan and Wang Zaijin, Lai Zongdao's understanding of Liaodong affairs can really be said to be limited.

"This is the coal mountain, the scenery is really not, not bad......" It is obvious that the coal mountain at this time is very different from the Jingshan that has become a park in later generations, at least in all senses, it cannot be called a "scenic spot" - whether it is the significance of natural scenery or historical commemoration, after all, no one committed suicide and martyrdom here in the current time and space.

Xiao Mu looked at a small dirt slope in front of him, and still praised the scenery against his will, and it may not have reached the realm of "opening his eyes and talking nonsense without changing his face", he didn't have the courage to use any words like "beautiful", and even the sentence "good" was a little stumbling.

However, the performance of the three ministers was much better than Xiao Mu's, not only did they immediately echo Xiao Mu's words and praise, but also found evidence that the scenery of the coal mountain was really good, and rigorously demonstrated the correctness of the emperor's opinion, and they were completely unhearted.

Especially when they came to Zongdao and Wang Zaijin, the words "pine and cypress", "birds and flowers", and "delicate and beautiful" were used one after another - although it was to echo Xiao Mu's point of view, or to help the emperor get rid of embarrassment, it still made Xiao Mu sound a little embarrassed. Even Yuan Chonghuan, who had the impression of being upright, praised the "scenery" of Coal Mountain a few words - most likely out of consideration to avoid embarrassing the emperor.

At this time, Xiao Mu also understood that the aesthetic level of these three ministers was not as low as he had just imagined, but it was just to maintain his face as the emperor, although he was a traverser, but there was nothing worth feeling superior in terms of aesthetics.

Xiao Mu took a few people around the coal mountain, and finally found a crooked neck tree that looked good, and then Xiao Mu personally climbed the dirt slope of the coal mountain and walked to the tree that grew "halfway up the mountain".

Seeing that the emperor was personally "climbing", of course the three ministers had to follow, so Lai Zongdao and others also followed Xiao Mu and came to the crooked neck tree together.

"How do you look at this tree?" Xiao Mu asked, pointing to the crooked-necked tree.

"This ......" Lai Zongdao and the others looked at each other, it was obvious that they couldn't think of Xiao Mu's original intention, in fact, they were all looking at what was so special about this tree - if the emperor said just now that the scenery of Coal Mountain was good, they still had a way to come back, but now it is just such a crooked neck tree, and it is not so easy to find some rhetoric to praise it, although they are all from the two lists of Jinshi, and they are outstanding in the entire Ming Dynasty.

"The ministers are stupid, and please ask the emperor to make it clear." Although Lai Zongdao and the others are much higher than Xiao Mu's realm, and they all do not blush and heartbeat when they praise the scenery of Coal Mountain, but after all, they still have the ethics of literati, and they failed to muster up the courage in the end, and use words such as "vigorous" and "upright" to describe such an ordinary crooked neck tree that can no longer be ordinary, and it seems that it can only be used as firewood.

"Well, I thought the tree was very good." Xiao Mu's right hand first touched the rough bark, then cardboard the long crooked trunk, and said with a smile, "In the future, if one day the capital is lost and the enemy soldiers enter the imperial city, I can hang a three-foot white silk here, and then hang myself and die with my companion." ”

"Your Majesty!" Lai Zongdao, Yuan Chonghuan, Wang Zaijin, and Wang Chengen, who had been silently acting as an audience on the side, were shocked when they heard this, and they all immediately fell to their knees, "The ministers are incompetent, they have a negative society, and they deserve to die, please ask the emperor to surrender!" ”