"Finally back in Chang'an City......"

In the carriage, Li Jie, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, sighed faintly, and then lowered the curtain. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe prosperity of Chang'an City is very different from the area where the Yellow River has flooded. Returning to Chang'an, like Li Jie, who was in the next world, actually had some unreal feelings.

Chunming Gate is still some way away from the palace, and there are people performing puppet operas along the street, which makes Li Cheng a little dizzying. It's not that the opera is very good-looking, at least it's a little far away from the opera in the Goolan tile shop. But the novelty of the opera is only available at this time of the year, and what you watch is a novelty.

The carriage turned, and finally left the noisy street market and came to the royal street. On the royal street, no one dares to make noise in front of the palace, so it is a rare quiet place. When he came to the Xuande Tower, the imperial guard in charge of the palace guard stopped the carriage. The coachman Li Cheng hurriedly took out Li Jie's official seal and handed it over to the imperial guards for inspection.

This official seal, two inches in India, is cast in brass. The official seal of Dashun is characterized by a large printing surface, and the larger the official position, the larger the official seal. The official seal of the second grade of the imperial court, a certain Shangshu, all of them are rectangular buttons, and the seal is engraved with the reverse word of "Miao Seal" Yin, which is several seal characters of "the seal of the Ministry of Works". On the back of the official seal of the Ministry of Industry, it is engraved with "Hongxiang in October of the first year of Shaofu Supervision and Casting", and the upper end of the seal button is also engraved with the word "Shang" to prevent the seal from being used in reverse.

Such an official seal is not easy to imitate. Because although the official seal of Dashun is cast in copper, because some yamen official affairs are very busy, the official seal wears out quickly, and it is necessary to replace a new seal every year. Coupled with the withdrawal and merger of some institutions and man-made damage, a large number of official seals were scrapped at all levels in the Song Dynasty every year. And these waste seals, each yamen can not be good at disposing of themselves, must be handed over to the Ministry of Rites, and destroyed in a unified manner. Then the Shaofu Supervisor recast an official seal and distributed it to the yamen where the official seal was damaged. It is precisely because of the frequent change of printing that the date on the official seal is often changed, so it is not easy to imitate. These imperial guards guard the palace gate, not only to see the official seal, but also to look at the official uniform, and the two are matched to enter the palace. Li Jie also knew this rule, so he had already gotten out of the carriage and generously revealed the second-grade official uniform he was wearing.

After the imperial guards carefully inspected it, they put Li Jie into the palace. Li Cheng was very interested, and honestly took the carriage aside, waiting for Li Jie to come out. Li Cheng has been his coachman since Li Jie became a prisoner, and he has long been familiar with the rules, so there is no need to say more.

At this moment, Lu Chengqi is in the Imperial Garden, enjoying the scenery of plum blossoms after the snow with Queen Zhou Zhiruo. If someone sees it, he will definitely say that Lu Chengqi doesn't care about the society and is greedy for pleasure. Isn't the emperor a human being, so he can't have a time to rest? Lu Chengqi was very disapproving, Li Ran had already given him direct advice many times in the imperial history, advising him not to leave the palace frequently, and to stay in the palace honestly. If Lu Chengqi was so obedient, like a canary, he wouldn't be Lu Chengqi.

"Zitong, such a beautiful scenery is rare to see!"

Lu Chengqi couldn't help but sigh, he was originally a Lingnan person, and Lingnan people don't say that they have seen snow scenes, even plum blossoms are rare. At least before his rebirth, Lu Chengqi had never seen such a plum garden.

Zhou Zhiruo is an authentic Chang'an person, and the plum snow scenery can be seen every year, so what's so strange? It's just that seeing Lu Chengqi so fascinated, he couldn't bear to hit him, and echoed: "It's really beautiful!" ”

Lu Chengqi suddenly became full of poetry and recited: "The plum and snow are three points white, but the snow loses the fragrance of the plum." ”

Zhou Zhiruo listened to this poem and looked at Lu Chengqi in surprise: "How could Your Majesty make such a good sentence!" ”

In her opinion, Lu Chengqi is famous for "not learning and not knowing", even if it is a handful of brush words, it is not satisfactory, let alone composing poems and lyrics, which is more interesting than songs. But now when she heard this good poem, Zhou Zhiruo couldn't help but be impressed.

Lu Chengqi woke up to the fact that this poem was originally made by the Song people, and he forgot who it was, but he was definitely not born. Lu Chengqi, who came back to his senses, was very shocked and said: "Could it be that I don't have any talent in Zitong's mind?" ”

Zhou Zhiruo smiled "fluttering", and was about to explain, but Gao Hao walked into the plum garden out of place, bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Industry Shangshu Li Jiezhi asks to see you." ”

"Your Majesty has government affairs to deal with, so the concubines will not bother." Zhou Zhiruo avoided the side and said very obediently.

Lu Chengqi pondered for a moment and said, "Zitong, let's go to the imperial dining room and prepare some tea." Li Jiegang has just returned from Henan Mansion, and he has been tired all the way, so he should be rewarded. ”

Zhou Zhiruo couldn't help but be a little jealous, and said: "Your Majesty treats your courtiers better than your concubines!" ”

Lu Chengqi hurriedly comforted: "How can it be compared? The courtiers are my left and right arms, but Zitong is my reliance! ”

Hearing this, Zhou Zhiruo blushed and spat: "It's not serious!" "The red cheeks are not inferior to the plum.

After seeing Zhou Zhiruo leave, Lu Chengqi summoned Li Zhi to meet him. Li Jie's clothes were not much, and he relied on his young body to carry it for a long time. When Lu Chengqi saw Li Jie, who was pale, he hurriedly called him into the pavilion with a stove, and poured him a cup of hot tea.

This action moved Li Jie so much that he didn't want to, and hurriedly saluted: "Your Majesty can't be like this!" ”

Lu Chengqi insisted on saying: "A trivial matter is not enough to worry about." Li Qing sat down quickly, I want to hear with my own ears, in the past six months, how has you progressed in Henan Mansion to control the water? ”

Li Jie was honest and didn't know how to speak, so he had to sit down. Not to mention, just on the stove, drinking the hot tea that has just been boiled, the body will warm up at once. "Your Majesty, the specific matters have been written in detail in the middle of the recital......

Lu Chengqi waved his hand, he also knew that Li Jie was honest and would not say anything else except work. But what he cares about is not just water control. Lu Chengqi drank a cup of hot tea and said slowly: "That's just a matter of water control, what I want to know is how the people of Henan Mansion live after the flood?" ”

This is what Lu Chengqi wants to pay attention to, he wants to know how the people of Henan Mansion are recovering after the relief of the imperial court?

Sure enough, Li Jie's face became solemn: "Don't hide it from Your Majesty, if it weren't for the water control, the minister would not know that there are still such poor people in Dashun." ”

Lu Chengqi hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"After the floods, the fields were deserted, and the people were left unclothed. If there is no relief from the imperial court, starvation for thousands of miles is a trivial matter. After a year, it was not easy for the people along the Yellow River to eat, they had to go down to the river to catch fish, and the wild vegetables in the mountains were all dug up. If it weren't for His Majesty's stubbornness to build the canal and replace it with work, once the imperial court ran out of money and silver for disaster relief, I don't know how many families would be ruined...... "Li Jie is too honest, if he were a different person, he would never say this in front of Lu Chengqi uprightly. This is suspected of accusing Lu Chengqi of making mistakes in his administration and of being an afterthought.

Fortunately, Lu Chengqi is not such a stingy emperor, otherwise, Li Jie would have been reprimanded for being presumptuous. There is no way, Lu Chengqi also relied on the flood of the Yellow River to take the opportunity to take power. Therefore, Lu Chengqi is very concerned about water control, and he feels very sorry for these people along the Yellow River. If he had moved quickly, there wouldn't have been so many people uprooting...... (To be continued.) )