There is a magnificent hall on the east side of the harem of the Forbidden City, with three gilded characters on the imperial dining room.

This is the renovated Imperial Dining Room, a modern kitchen and dining room designed by Li Weiguo himself.

In the center of the restaurant, there is only a 30-meter-long extra-large dining table with dragons and phoenixes in the center, and more than 100 dining chairs are placed around it. To the left and right are the kitchens, with fifty stoves and a hundred cooks. The kitchen and dining room are separated by a sliding door, and the dishes in the kitchen are ready to be served directly to the table after they are cooked.

Originally, in all dynasties, women were not allowed to eat with men, and the court was even stricter, and the palace concubines could only eat in their own palaces, unless the emperor ordered them to dine together.

But Li Weiguo is different, he thinks that he will be alienated from his wives and concubines, so he likes to have dinner with all his wives and concubines, bring the children, and eat together as a family, so as to have a good time.

Now there are more than 20 concubines in Li Weiguo's harem, and there are as many as 62 princes and princesses, and nearly 100 people gather around a large dining table to eat, which is really lively.

At noon, the concubines of the three palaces and six courtyards of the inner court came to the imperial dining room one after another with their little princes and princesses and sat down at the dining table.

Each concubine has its own position, and they are seated according to the rank of the harem. The princes and princesses sat at the end in the order of eldest and youngest, and the children who could not eat by themselves were helped by special court maids.

It wasn't until all the concubines arrived that Fu Shanxiang, as the queen of the main palace, walked in together, accompanied by the queens of the east and west palaces.

Everyone got up one after another to greet each other, and when the queen of the three palaces sat down, they sat down again, quiet, and did not exchange words and ears.

The position in the center is the head of the family, left to Emperor Li Weiguo. But after waiting for a while, Li Weiguo didn't come to eat.

Fu Shanxiang then asked, "Did you go and invite the emperor over?" ”

The palace maid stepped forward and replied: "Queen Qiyu, I have been invited many times, it seems that the emperor is not in the palace." ”

Hearing this, Fu Shanxiang immediately frowned, thinking that Li Weiguo had slipped out of the palace to take his sister again.

However, it soon turned out that she had guessed wrong, and a female officer came back to report.

"Your Majesty is in the Imperial Library. I won't come back for lunch at noon. ”

Fu Shanxiang was stunned for a moment, and asked rhetorically, "What is Your Majesty doing in the library?" You can't read a book without eating, right? ”

The female official replied, "It is said that His Majesty is there to receive fans, and he is busy signing and selling books!" ”

"What?"

Not only Fu Shanxiang, but all the concubines were in a daze, not knowing that this was making trouble again.

The dignified emperor and the king of a country actually went to sell books? What a system this becomes!

Do you still have to sign to sell a book? When did the emperor's signature become so worthless!

What made the concubines collapse the most was that what fans did they have to receive? What the hell are fans? Haven't heard of it.

The women immediately turned their heads to each other.

At this time, Su Sanniang suddenly said: "Recently, Your Majesty seems to have written a book called "The Theory of Sea Power", and I heard that Your Majesty laughed for a long time after writing it. Seems to care. ”

"Forget it, let's eat first!"

Fu Shanxiang didn't say anything, so everyone hurriedly dined, and then went back to ask someone to inquire about the situation, so there was no need to elaborate.

At this moment, on the Imperial Square outside the main gate of the Forbidden City, thousands of citizens of the capital gathered. There are pergolas selling books everywhere, and stacks of new books are being unpacked and taken out for sale.

You can see it when you get closer. There is only one kind of book here, called "The Theory of Sea Power". The price is 20 yuan, and the new version is RMB.

Looking at the world, the most expensive book is only 5 yuan, and this "Theory of Sea Power" directly sold for 20 yuan, directly refreshing the world's highest record, and the supply exceeds demand.

There was a long queue in front of each book booth, from morning to now. There are more and more people. Some people who can't wait directly pay a high price to buy it outside, and immediately after getting the book, they line up on the fifth floor of the Imperial Library and wait for an autograph.

"This lord, do you want a number? Skip the line, just take the number and go in to see the emperor. I got the emperor's autograph. ”

A middle-aged man in a black tunic, standing next to the queue, was selling a sign to an adult wearing a six-rank civil official uniform.

The adult was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "This number plate can also be transferred?" ”

"Of course! You just say you want the number you want, and the villain can get it for the adult. Of course, the premise is that you can afford the price, and the earlier the number, the more expensive it is. The price is clearly marked, and there is no bullying for children. ”

"How much is the first number?"

"You are optimistic, the current number is 485, my number here can directly wait for you to go over to cut the line, within three, 1000 yuan, within ten 800 yuan, the more you line up, the more expensive it is, and the more you go back, the cheaper it is."

"Why don't you grab it? The official's annual salary is only 500 yuan! ”

"My lord, you have to figure it out, what an honor it is to get His Majesty's autograph, which is equivalent to green smoke on the ancestral graves of your family's eight generations. The emperor has every opportunity, but he will not sit here every day to sign and sell books, maybe the next moment the emperor will be tired and drive back to the palace. You must know that after this village, there will be no such shop. ”

"What's your name and where do you work?"

"My lord, you don't pay attention to it, ask my name to check my details, don't you want to settle accounts after the autumn? The villain doesn't sell your number anymore! ”

"Hey, hey, you have something to say, don't go, you're really cunning, it's just that, the official is out of the way, isn't it just two years' salary?"

The transaction was completed quickly, and the official called his subordinates to give the scalper a thousand yuan, and sure enough, he got the number at the front, and a minute later he saw the emperor Li Weiguo as he wished, and got the "Theory of Sea Power" signed by Li Weiguo.

The emperor personally signed and sold books here, and the first people who were notified were the officials in Beijing, followed by their relatives and friends, and then the citizens of the capital.

Not everyone can afford to pay 1,000 yuan to scalpers, because 1,000 yuan is a huge amount of money, and you can buy a ten-square-meter building in Beijing. For ordinary people with a monthly salary of only five yuan, it is even more out of reach.

But there are still many people who are willing to spend this unjust money, even if they tighten their belts in the future, they have to get an emperor's autograph, which is an honor. It can be taken out to show off to relatives and friends, which is important for Chinese with good faces.

There were more and more people in the square, and soon the old and young masters of the entire capital knew that the emperor personally signed and sold books in the imperial library, so they all flocked to buy a copy of "The Theory of Sea Power" with two months' salary. I just want to see the emperor, and it would be better if I could get an autograph.

However, there are more monks and less porridge.

In less than a day, 200,000 copies of "The Theory of Sea Power" were sold in the square, but only a few hundred people were able to queue up to enter the Imperial Library to get the emperor's personal signature. Because Li Weiguo couldn't sit there all the time to sign, when he was tired, someone would block the crowd outside and end the signing activity.

Li Weiguo was very happy, he often went to the library to read books in his childhood in later generations, and often saw some star writers signing and selling books there. The scene was very hot, which made him very envious.

Now Li Weiguo has written a book "On Sea Power" for some political purpose, and in order to spread it all over the world as soon as possible and guide military personnel from all over the world to embark on the road of giant ships and artillery, he suddenly came up with the method of signing and selling books on a whim.

The emperor personally signed and sold the book, how shocking it would be, and it would definitely cause a sensation in the world.

This is what Li Weiguo wants. However, he still underestimated his influence, and he didn't expect that the Imperial Library was already crowded outside.

Li Weiguo looked out of the window while resting. I was taken aback.

Now it's a big game, there are hundreds of thousands of people in the square, I'm afraid that half of the people in the capital are gathered here, and there are a steady stream of people coming here from afar.

"Your Majesty, it's not too early, let's hurry up and drive back to the palace!"

Li Weiguo nodded. As the emperor, he naturally knew that he had to leave, otherwise so many people would gather. It's going to be messy.

"There is a beginning and an end to doing things, so I'll wait until the evening!"

Li Weiguo continued to sign, and his hands were soft and numb when he signed it, but he was tired of it and happy.

Until a scream at the door aroused Li Weiguo's idea.

"You dead ticket seller, can you stop jumping in line, my aunt and grandmother have been waiting here for two hours, you want to be ashamed!"

Li Weiguo asked, "What's going on outside?" ”

Mingyue, the head of the female guard, immediately stepped forward and whispered: "Your Majesty, it is the head of the guard Zhuang who is reselling the queue ticket number, and the number is called for 1,000 yuan, and it is estimated that there was a conflict with a female student at the door." ”

Li Weiguo was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect Zhuang Jiuxia's people to resell the queue number outside.

If this Nima wants to be so pitted, could it be that the scalpers and ticket dealers have also crossed over.

"Call him over!" Li Weiguo suddenly said with a dark face.

After a while, Zhuang Jiuxia ran over and asked profusely, "Your Majesty, your name is Chen?" ”

Li Weiguo shouted angrily: "I heard that you are pouring a ticket number outside, a thousand yuan a number?" Are you talented? This is faster than robbing a bank! ”

Zhuang Jiuxia was stunned for a moment, glared at Mingyue next to him fiercely, but saw her gloating and smiling.

"Your Majesty, the minister is not a ticket seller, the minister just wants to keep the people who come to see His Majesty in a controllable state, so he sent people to secretly find some reliable people, and let them cut the queue on the grounds of reselling ticket numbers, so as to reduce the possibility of assassins taking the opportunity to sneak in as much as possible."

Zhuang Jiuxia, as the chief of the guard, protecting Li Weiguo's safety is the top priority. Li Weiguo also knew that he went to the Imperial Library to sign and sell books, which caused hundreds of thousands of ordinary people outside to watch, and invisibly created huge difficulties for the security work of Zhuang Jiuxia and other guards.

Compare your heart with your heart and look at the problem from Zhuang Jiuxia's standpoint, and you will understand his worries and good intentions.

"No wonder I found that almost all the people who came in were acquaintances, either civil and military officials, or the children of official eunuchs, and you were all the devil for a long time. However, the call fee is 1,000 yuan, and you are a little darker, the highest annual salary among them is only 1,500 yuan, and there are many low-level officials whose annual salary is only 500. ”

Zhuang Jiuxia said with a wry smile: "The minister didn't think so much, but he saw that there were a lot of people outside, and the people in the capital were not bad for money, and a few hundred yuan couldn't scare them at all, so the minister shouted out the price of a thousand yuan, but he still flocked to it, they were all wise and martial arts of the emperor, and they all wanted to come in and see the dragon's face, and their ancestral tombs would be smoking in the future." ”

"Alright. Less sycophants and talk about how much money you've made! Li Weiguo scolded with a smile.

Zhuang Jiuxia replied cautiously: "Drag Your Majesty's Hongfu, the minister has made a small 100,000 yuan by reselling the ticket number, but this doesn't seem to be illegal, right?" ”

Sure enough, it's faster than robbing a bank to get money!

Li Weiguo couldn't help but be surprised, thinking of the scalpers in later generations. He suddenly said: "That's right, it's not illegal now, but I will immediately promulgate a new law when I go back, and ticket sellers like you will be severely cracked down on in the future." ”

"It's a big deal, how about the ministers hand over all the proceeds to the treasury?" Zhuang Jiuxia said tentatively.

Li Weiguo shook his head and said: "It's not proper, how can it be handed over to the treasury, it's obviously my hard-earned income, are you in charge of helping!" ”

Zhuang Jiuxia suddenly smiled bitterly and said: "Your Majesty, you still have to grab food with your ministers, you are not short of money!" ”

Li Weiguo waved his hand. Evil smile said: "You don't understand, it's a joie de vivre!" ”

Fluttering, Mingyue on the side finally couldn't help laughing.

In the evening, when it was time for the imperial government to get off work, Li Weiguo also completed the last signature by the way, ending the book signing activity.

However, seeing the disappointed expressions of hundreds of thousands of people in the square, Li Weiguo made an announcement. Will find time for a similar event again.

In fact, Li Weiguo himself wanted to say that he would come every day in the future. Enjoy the nice feeling that comes with a signature. However, when he thought of his identity, as the emperor of the empire, if he came over to sign and sell books every day, he would probably soon be accused of being a faint king.

Being the emperor restricted Li Weiguo from doing many things. But once in a while, you can try it and have a good time.

Under the protection of the Imperial Guards, Li Weiguo soon returned to the Forbidden City.

However, the first thing he did when he returned to the Forbidden City, Li Weiguo asked Zhuang Jiuxia to report the name of the official who bought the ticket number at a high price. Li Weiguo doesn't care how much other ordinary people spend to buy a ticket number. He only cares about the performance of the officials.

In the following period, Li Weiguo continued to receive reports that the Department of Homeland Security was secretly observing the families of officials who spent 1,000 yuan to buy ticket numbers, mainly monitoring their daily consumption.

According to normal speaking, even high-ranking government officials are not like the Qing Dynasty can loot the people's fat and ointment to embezzle and accept bribes, China's officials are very young, they have full of enthusiasm to build a new China, and will never allow New China to follow the road of corruption and corruption in the past dynasties and eventually destroy the country, they hope to create a Chinese officialdom that governs and governs clearly, and they themselves regard corruption as a cancer, shame and company, and aspire to be a clean official and a good official. At the same time, the empire also had the Supreme Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office, and the Independent Commission Against Corruption to supervise, and the officials there were all well-known Qingliu factions, and they couldn't rub sand in their eyes.

In this kind of officialdom environment, the officialdom is clear and clear, and every official is proud to be a good official and a clean official, and there is very little other income except for the monthly payment of money to them by the imperial court.

Of course, the empire implemented a ******** policy, in addition to providing officials with a salary higher than the average in society, there were also publicly-funded medical care, publicly-funded education, and a large amount of living allowances. History shows that from the very beginning, officials worked hard for the country and the people with all their enthusiasm, because of the influence of such factors as low salaries, many officials and their family members who could not afford to see a doctor, and their children could not afford to pay their tuition fees, and finally they could not withstand the exploitation of corrupt elements in society and embarked on the road of corruption. China's ******** policy is to protect officials from the root cause of the evil path.

After investigation, it was found that most of the families of these officials, who spent 1,000 yuan to buy ticket numbers, lived in poverty and were frugal. Only a small number of officials, some of whom have wealthy families and maiden families, do not affect their daily lives for 1,000 yuan. However, there are also a small number of officials who do not have any financial resources, but still do not have to save money, and there is a problem in this.

After Li Weiguo got the list, he felt very relieved in his heart, after all, most officials are still incorruptible, and it is reasonable for individual officials to have problems, after all, the forest is big and there are all kinds of birds, and since ancient times, corruption cannot be completely eradicated, but corruption can only be reduced indefinitely, and there are always a few corrupt officials who speak against it.

In the future, Li Weiguo will naturally not let go of those problematic officials, and hand them over to the procuratorate and the Independent Commission Against Corruption, so that they can investigate and deal with them, prosecute those who should be prosecuted, arrest those who should be arrested, and warn those who should be warned, and will not tolerate corruption.

As for those officials who spent 1,000 yuan to buy accounts, but their lives were poor, Li Weiguo paid out of his own pocket and used other excuses to reward these officials and subsidize their families. It not only helped them, but also made them grateful to Dade, and the harvest was huge. (To be continued.) )