Man is inert, this is human instinct, and it is a self-protection mechanism for man, in order to minimize his own energy consumption. Everyone will have inertia, which is mainly manifested in laziness and depression in work and life, and the negative tendency to not seek progress. And the forms that form laziness are also diverse, including extreme states of laziness, as well as slight hesitation.

Extreme laziness would not have appeared in Guangxu, whether it was the Japanese fleet on the way back to China or the restlessness of the domestic undercurrent, the huge external pressure forced Guangxu to maintain a high degree of nervous tension. The slight hesitation will not appear in Guangxu, the emperor's identity as the ruler of a country makes Guangxu's words and deeds become the weather vane of the country, so he can't hesitate at any time as an emperor, because the emperor's hesitation will be amplified by administrative units at all levels, and finally become unrecognizable. Guangxu has never hesitated, even if the result may be wrong, then he will do it firmly. When you find a mistake, you will correct it in time, and you will also win a good image of a wise gentleman who can accept loyalty. Therefore, in the eyes of the courtiers, the current emperor is a generation of holy masters, with vision, determination, courage, benevolence, and practical work...... In short, Guangxu is the image of a perfect emperor in the eyes of the ministers. However, this is the emperor in the eyes of the ministers. But in Yang Zao'er's eyes, the emperor who was lying in bed was not Mingjun.

"I was a little '-' overworked last night. It's just half an hour. Guangxu deliberately lengthened the pronunciation of the words, and he didn't open his eyes when he spoke, but just burrowed under the quilt like maggots.

Yang Zao'er blushed and didn't speak, just wrung out the towel soaked in cold water and spread it on Guangxu's face. The water in Beijing is still very cold in mid-April.

"Wow-" Guangxu took the towel in his hand, and the whole person sat up. At this point, I really can't sleep anymore.

The sun had risen, and the red sun was pouring over the earth. Shortly after a scream from the main building of Yingtai, the emperor and queen appeared hand in hand in front of the eunuchs and palace maids. It turned out that I had to go for a morning jog around Yingtai every morning. Today, I only ran half a lap and Guangxu was tired, and it seems that I was really overworked last night. After washing, a bowl of soy milk is put into the stomach. The spirit of the whole body came. Yang Zao'er helped Guangxu put on his court clothes, and sent the emperor to the court with a pointed smile. Come back in the evening and clean you up. Guangxu said viciously.

After the salute at the court meeting, Sun Jianai was unhappy with the emperor who was rubbing his waist and eyes, and said that the emperor should not be greedy for joy, and it was important to take care of the dragon's body.

Guangxu, who was originally sitting steadily, jumped up when he heard this: "I was working on state affairs last night, and it was state affairs-" Guangxu was very angry, and his face turned red, because since the queen entered the palace, someone has been whispering in his ear every day, and anyone who hears too much is annoying. However, at this time, the emperor's anger was more like a kind of annoyance. At least the emperor has begun to explain the reason, and it is no longer a simple and rude sentence to shut up.

Many ministers say yes, but in fact they don't think so. Everyone came from a young age, men, they all understand. Therefore, everyone still has an understandable mentality about the emperor's explanation. However, some people believe that at least there are many twists and turns that have been submitted to Zhu for approval and are still in the hands of the emperor and have not been approved. As the prime minister, Li Hongzhang knows best how many episodes of the daily recitals are still in the hands of the emperor, at least in recent days, there are more recitals than the ones submitted, which can very well prove that the emperor has indeed been working on state affairs recently. So he motioned for everyone to be quiet, and he stepped forward from class. His original intention was to invite the emperor to state affairs, although it was important, the dragon body was even more important. Before he thought about it, he said the word "state affairs", but was interrupted by a series of hurried words from Guangxu.

"State affairs. A state affair, of course. Didn't you say that the emperor had no heirs and was a great trouble for the country? I was busy with the affairs of the heirs last night, isn't this a state affair? ”

After Guangxu finished speaking, the ministers in the audience laughed in a low voice. The state affairs that the emperor said are actually not like that. I don't dare to laugh, the Qing Dynasty didn't do anything else, but let the emperor's authority reach its peak for thousands of years, and Guangxu picked up a bargain. You can laugh, but there are many people in the audience, and no matter how low the laughter is concentrated in a large hall with amplification effect, the sound is quite loud.

"What are you laughing at, I am a very normal man both physically and mentally, what's so ridiculous about this." Having said that, Guangxu's face turned even redder. So Guangxu was annoyed again and asked with a long face: "Master Weng, have the emperor's court clothes and rituals been drawn up?" ”

The emperor slapped the table. The emperor's face still has to be given. The suppressed laughter couldn't suppress the laughter, Weng Tongyi smiled and said: "The queen's court dress has been sent to Yingtai this morning to ask the queen to try on the clothes." The emperor can see it after the court. As for the queen's ceremonial system, the micro-ministers have been submitted, and the emperor's work on state affairs has not yet been approved. ”

Weng Tongyong, who has always claimed to be a clear stream, clean and self-conscious, and pays attention to appearance, made the emperor's jokes between his words, and some people couldn't help it anymore, and laughed out loud with "poof", and hurriedly covered his mouth with one hand, and kept making strange noises with the other hand covering his stomach.

"If you like to laugh, then laugh." There's nothing unpleasant about this, it's all men. Guangxu comforted himself with a dark face, because the audience was already laughing.

Laugh at it, but things have to be done. Today, Guangxu ended the state affairs early, and stood on the Yingtai Bridge with Li Hongzhang and watched the sunset and chatted. Tonight is the day when Guangxu set up a thank-you banquet. said that he wanted to invite Li Ju Lotus to eat the thank you media banquet, of course, he had to do it.

"I said Lao Li, the two of us invited Li Ju Lotus to eat the thank you banquet and didn't invite you. It's not appropriate for you to come here to eat and drink. ”

Seeing the emperor stretching his face, Li Hongzhang was happy, and now the emperor doesn't want to see him, and the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty knows it. Although the emperor subsidized most of the income of the imperial enterprises to the imperial court, it must still be an industry in the emperor's name. You have to assign the property in other people's names to the imperial court, so according to Guangxu's meaning, you want to confiscate it, this is the idea of beating other people's property, and no one will want to see you. In fact, Li Hongzhang is not willing to do this, anyway, the world is the emperor, and it is not a problem for the imperial court to use Shunfeng Logistics as an envoy of the Ministry of Postal Communication, and it is not a problem for the imperial court to be transported by Shunfeng Logistics before. But what happened at the beginning of the year made the emperor worry about the feasibility of using commercial institutions to undertake confidential transportation.

The two mountain regiments in the south are to be expanded, and the military personnel and equipment sent to guide the expansion have already arrived. Mountain warfare naturally refers to fighting in high mountains and dense forests, where there are no ready-made roads available, and it is impossible to quickly transport large artillery in dense forests, and dense forests also affect the lethality of machine guns. Then the strongest fire support for the infantry is, naturally, mortars and grenades. Therefore, both Liu Yongfu and Zhao Erfeng coincidentally chose to disassemble the mortar and move forward on the soldier's back. This is right, but the mortar was originally designed to be used in the northern plain battlefield, and the bottom tray design was too large to be stable, which is not suitable for the mountainous areas with diverse terrain. For this. The Institute of Martial Arts has redesigned a small pallet that is more suitable for mountain use, because it is only a single piece. Therefore, after it is manufactured, it will be handed over to Shunfeng Logistics to be sent to the two mountain groups for actual measurement. As a result, Liu Yongfu didn't receive it, so he turned around and came to check only to find that the other was still pressed in a small corner of the warehouse in Wuchang. Although this is not a big deal, and even if it is really lost, it is not a big deal, but it is just an ordinary base, but it exposes the risk of military haulage tasks being carried out by commercial companies -- secrecy.

In order to avoid the possibility of such incidents and theft again, the ministers believed that Shunfeng Logistics should be reorganized into the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications managed by the imperial court, while Guangxu insisted that it was a private property and at most lent the channel to the imperial court. And the kind that still has to be paid. As a result, the voice of the saint in the court, the Son of Heaven and the family and the country was very loud.

For the emperor's practice of separating the imperial property from the imperial court, the Manchu ministers were very dissatisfied. The whole world is your royal, and a logistics company is just handed over to the imperial court to manage, and in the final analysis, it is still royal. This became the only reason for the ministers to advise the emperor, and as the prime minister of the court, he was naturally pushed to the front by the ministers to persuade him. Li Hongzhang understands that the reason why the ministers are so active in promoting this matter is that they all take a fancy to the huge profits brought by Shunfeng Logistics. Which minister does not have a group of his own people behind him, and some children who can't go to the official career always have to be arranged. Only to be built to the imperial court management. In this way, everyone can arrange it, otherwise Shunfeng Logistics Company can only be the emperor's private property, and it is difficult for everyone to start. Li Hongzhang has no opinion on this. Because his protégés and former officials are the most, he naturally contributes the most. The emperor is now pushing the royal property to the queen, which is tantamount to turning state affairs into family affairs, which is not suitable for the court. That's why Li Hongzhang came to eat his daughter's Xie Matchmaker wine with a straight face, just to find an opportunity to talk to the queen about it.

"The son-in-law Zhang Peilun is far away in Taiwan to govern the emperor, and he will have a pregnant wife to take care of the old husband. The old man naturally has to fulfill his duty of care. ”

"If you say this, you'll be thick-skinned." Guangxu glanced at Li Hongzhang, who was smiling. In the distance, Li Jurong also came in a carriage.

Xie Media has rules among the people, but this is the emperor's Xie Media wine, some rules do not have to be followed, and it is already an honor to be able to eat the emperor's Xie Media wine. Guangxu and the three of them laughed and entered the main building but were taken aback, Yang Zaoer sat on the sofa with a straight face and didn't say a word. And there was a row of people kneeling in front of her, including Li Lianying, the eunuch in charge of the Internal Affairs Office, and Kou Liancai, the head of Yingtai.

"What's going on? What kind of mistake did you make to make your mother so angry? Do you think that the mother is easy to bully when she is new? Guangxu also reprimanded a few words with a straight face, and then sat down next to Yang Zao'er with a smile and said, "I didn't expect that Zao'er, who looks like a virtuous person, is still very majestic." What's wrong with such a person? I see that they have always been well-behaved. I don't think I'm going to make a big mistake. "Guangxu is obviously interceding for the eunuchs.

"A pound of fish costs a penny, and you don't care." As she spoke, Yang Zao'er was about to hand the account book to Guangxu.

"It seems like this price has been the same for years. Besides, the royal family will always be more particular about what they eat, and it's normal to be more expensive. After all, we must be royal. I won't look at the account, you are the hostess, you can do it. Guangxu smiled on his face, but his heart beat a drum.

When he first came to this world, in order to compete for imperial power, Guangxu began to check the palace after copying Cui Yugui's house through the fake vegetable case. At that time, the main purpose was to win over Cixi's henchman Li Lianying and install his own people, and the price of this dish had already been found at that time. The main reason why there was no further investigation is that this palace procurement is the only additional entry for the lower-level eunuchs and palace maids in the palace, and the number of people involved and the wide range make Guangxu dare not be heavy-handed, otherwise the eunuchs and palace maids who have lost their additional sources of wealth will not be allowed to collectively rebel against Guangxu. So when the former head of the Internal Affairs Office explained to Guangxu in this way, Guangxu recognized this statement, and the only thing he did was to let some eunuchs and palace maids who were close to Guangxu be transferred to this position. At the beginning, he did this to win the hearts of the people, and after taking power, a lot of state affairs made Guangxu unintentional about the price of a dish, but now he was discovered by Yang Zao'er, although the imperial power is now stable. Don't care about what people think, but if you really want to check it carefully, it is estimated that even Kou Liancai will not be able to escape. So Guangxu is actually very uneasy in his heart. If this is a big move, there will be a big shock in this palace. Where there are people, there is politics, as small as a family. As big as the imperial court, it is the same in this palace. If Yang Zao'er said that he would cut off all his heads or something, Guangxu would definitely oppose it. Kill Kou Li and Li for the price of a dish, so who would dare to do something for you. But with such an objection, the queen's first decree was rejected by the emperor, which was not conducive to the queen's authority in the inner palace. So Guangxu was really nervous.

Yang Zao'er's reaction was really strong: "One dollar of silver can have a good meal in an ordinary tavern in the capital, but when you go to the palace, you can only buy one fish." The concubine thought that in addition to the procurement and confiscation of illegal gains, she should also deduct the salary of some of the responsible persons. What does the emperor think? ”

"That's your territory. It's up to you. Guangxu spread his hands, an attitude that it was none of my business. Guangxu breathed a long sigh of relief, as long as the heads of Kou Li and Li were not the same, everything else would be easy to do. But Guangxu still said meaningfully: "However, I want to ask you for a favor." It is better not to punish the silver if you can not be punished, whether it is the prime minister or the subordinates who come out to work, they are out to beg for a living, if you deduct their salaries. Then their families may have a hard time in the next few months, which is forcing them to embezzle. Therefore, no matter what mistakes the officials make, I never deduct the fines. ”

"The old minister has been taught." Li Hongzhang bowed deeply to the emperor with a serious face.

At the thank you media banquet, the emperor and queen raised their glasses to thank Li Jurong, the big matchmaker, and they didn't look at Li Hongzhang Guangxu who was sitting on the side. The idea of playing Shunfeng Logistics Company has hit here, and he must not be given a good face. After three rounds of wine, the dishes were five flavors, and the four guests and hosts chatted harmoniously while drinking. Except for the emperor's black face on the prime minister. Li Hongzhang didn't care, just paid attention to the emotions of the emperor and queen.

When the lights were first on, he finally waited for a good opportunity: "Niangniang, the imperial court is about to set up a post and communication department, and Wei Chen thinks that now Shunfeng Logistics Company has offices in various places, such as the reorganization of Shunfeng logistics into the post and communication department, which not only saves time and energy for the imperial court, but also has important officials from all over the country who are already familiar with affairs." It has all the benefits and no disadvantages. The emperor's will said that shunfeng logistics is the emperor's family affair. It's up to the mother. Li Hongzhang, who was sitting opposite Guangxu, agitated his lips and tongue, trying to persuade the queen to agree.

Guangxu didn't raise his head: "Be careful." This old guy has been beating our family's ideas. He said this last year, you listen. He will talk about the righteousness of the world in a while. I'll leave this matter to you, and you're the hostess, so you have to hold it firm. ”

Li Hongzhang's face is full of black lines, your majesty, don't act so obviously if you don't agree. So he turned to the queen and said: "Niangniang, the emperor does not dare to agree with this. The intention of Weichen and others is just to transfer the property that was originally the emperor from the name of the royal family to the name of the imperial court. The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister. This world belongs to the emperor, and this court is also the emperor's, but it is just a different name. Niangniang is willing to enter the palace to serve the emperor, and she is also a broad-minded person. Presumably the mother won't refuse, right? ”

Yang Zao'er didn't answer for a while, but Guangxu on the side spoke: "The Prime Minister's eyes are not good. My jujube is a narrow-minded and calculating little woman. Originally, Li Hongzhang wanted to say something, but Guangxu glared at him: "I like such a woman." Do you have an opinion? ”

Li Hongzhang has no opinion Yang Zao'er doesn't know, but Yang Zao'er must have some knowledge, so she said: "If the Prime Minister says so, this palace will not dare to agree." The income of the imperial court is all the people's fat and people's ointment, how dare the royal family of the heavenly family abuse it, it is better to distinguish it. Since the emperor set up an industry, the imperial court has lent a large amount of silver taels from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to subsidize the state, which is the lack of income of the imperial court, and it is natural for the royal family to contribute money and efforts. It's just that as the Prime Minister, is it inappropriate to borrow money from the Ministry of Internal Affairs without making an IOU? In the past, the palace run by the emperor didn't care, but after that, the emperor of the Internal Affairs Office let the palace have full authority to manage it, and if the imperial court wants to take money from the Internal Affairs Office, as the prime minister, he always has to make an IOU. ”

"Yes, yes, yes." Guangxu nodded like a mash: "Public and private must be clearly distinguished, as the prime minister, you can't always think about confiscating the royal private property." It's not just the royal family and the imperial court that need to distinguish between public and private—"

Listening to the emperor's long sigh, Li Hongzhang nodded thoughtfully.

"Your Majesty......" Li Jurong smiled and wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Guangxu's words.

"What's the emperor, don't explain it to your father. Today, if he doesn't write the IOU, don't think about this door. Guangxu waved his hand and said angrily: "Come on, close the door and let the dog go." (To be continued)