Most of these people in the court have a problem of not knowing whether it is good or bad, and they guess the motive in advance. If someone else writes about the forbidden thing, everyone only says that he is grandstanding, but Master Li, as the owner of the first court staff achievement of Jinghe Dynasty, does not seem to have this need.

So what is his purpose? Some of the ministers in the hall frowned and meditated, some nodded slightly, some looked up at the temple, and some bowed their heads and pondered... There are also countless real eyes that look directly at the second assistant Xu Ge Lao and Zhao Tianguan who are standing in the forefront, which makes the two of them feel like they are on their backs, and secretly scolded Li You in his heart for being really idle and deserving to be sent by the Queen Mother to flood control.

However, Empress Dowager Qian's cultivation surname is Zhenru, and when she saw Li You's name, she didn't care if she repaired it first. Her old man's anger at the beginning of the year has not yet been digested, and this Li You jumped out again, and also put on a blockage, who will he repair if he doesn't repair it? The reason for adding blockage is very simple, the officials make up the scene when the strong mother-in-law meets the strong daughter-in-law.

Master Li never thought that Empress Dowager Qian would hold a grudge like this, and after seeing the chapter, she didn't just talk about things, but first took rectifying him as the top priority, and she didn't have the demeanor of Yao Shun at all. It can only be said that Master Li's emotional cells are not rich enough, and he underestimated the extent to which his betrayal of the Empress Dowager Qian at a critical moment as a close fellow villager who has received countless favors has hurt the psychology of the Empress Dowager Qian. Knowing this, he must have to think twice before playing the book.

Later, when he received the order, Li You couldn't help but sigh that most women are really not suitable for being politicians, even if they are the queen mother who listens to the government, they are still women. Don't think that the additional dispatch can celebrate the addition of officials, this temporary dispatch is definitely not a poor American mission.

It is said that the Queen Mother ordered Li You to go to the Lianghuai region to assist in river affairs during the autumn flood period, of course, she did not ask him to be in charge of the entire Lianghuai River Basin, which was something that at least three products could do, and he could not afford this responsibility with only one positive six products. It was just that he was sent to accept the dispatch of the governor of Fengyang during the flood season, and to supervise and inspect a certain section of river affairs in the division of labor.

The reason why it is said that the assistant river affairs assigned to Mr. Li during the flood season is a drudgery, first of all, because now that the flood season is approaching and the situation is urgent, the assistant river affairs temporarily dispatched are of course flood fighting and rescue, not water conservancy projects. There is no benefit to be gained, and there is no need to endure hardships and travel on the embankment and weir, and have to bear the corresponding risks, in case the embankment collapses and wait to be reviewed.

Secondly, the river affairs in the Huanghuai region are different from other places, which is one of the most unsolvable problems in the Ming Dynasty. Under the heavenly path of the Yellow River, which has repeatedly seized the Huai River into the sea, with the existing technical conditions, no matter who tosses, it will not be able to completely cure the Huanghuai floods, and can only try to minimize the disaster and control it within a controllable range.

Third, the Grand Canal, the lifeline of the imperial court, passes through the Lianghuai, but the water situation of the Lianghuai is extremely complicated. The big rivers and lakes are all next to the canal, close at hand, and looking at the map makes people feel terrified. If the ship cannot travel and affect the transportation, causing the supply of millions of soldiers and civilians in Beijing to be cut off, then the official in charge of the river will not be able to clear his sin by jumping into the Yellow River.

Therefore, the river officials of the two Huai are definitely the first-class drudgery, and going to fight floods and rescue in the flood season is even more drudgery. The Empress Dowager Cisheng, who was still holding grudges in her heart, sent Lord Li from Yangzhou to do this with a few words.

No minister came forward to express his dissenting opinion, because there was no need, and the assistant to the river affairs during the flood season was only a temporary dispatch of two or three months, and it was not worth the battle.

In addition, the governor of Fengyang has already requested that capable personnel be assigned to supervise the river affairs in various places during the flood season. That Li You is an official of Yangzhou Prefecture, and he is also under the jurisdiction of the governor of Fengyang, Jiangbei, and he himself is young and strong, and he is so energetic that he still has the leisure to pay attention to the forbidden matter, so it is natural to dispatch him to fight the flood and rescue the emergency, and there is no problem in the procedure.

In the end, the Queen Mother has been in trouble lately, so it's better to be less troublesome.

Having said that, in the 300 years since the founding of this dynasty, the Yellow River has been seized from the sea throughout, and it is also the 300 years that the Yellow River has continued to cause harm. It can be said that the Yellow River is the first major problem in the hinterland of the Central Plains.

If the Yellow River has a three-to-five-year gap and does not cause large or small floods, then thank God for the blessing of our ancestors.

Once the Yellow River bursts (often in the Kaifeng area), the surging flood flows south along the Surabaya basin, eventually hitting the Huai River directly and seizing its course into the sea.

Under the flood irrigation, not only Xuzhou, Suqian and other places along the way suffered, Huainan and Huaibei, as the destination of the Yellow River, were also hit by arrows across hundreds of miles, and were irrigated by the Yellow River to Hongze, Gaoyou, Baoying and other big lakes. Why are there more lakes in Huainan than in the south of the Yangtze River? That's all the "credit" of being flooded by the Yellow River for hundreds of years.

Looking at the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it is often said that Yuan Shu occupies Huainan and has enough soldiers and food, which is probably the case in ancient times, but it is a joke to put it in today's situation.

Fengyang Mansion, the land of Longxing, is the hardest hit area of the Yellow River floods, why do Fengyang people aggrieved and sing the flower drum lyrics, "Say Fengyang Road Fengyang, Fengyang is a good place, since Emperor Zhu, there have been nine years of famine in ten years"?

It was forced out by the Yellow River south for hundreds of years, and if Emperor Taizu had a spirit in the sky, it was estimated that he would be very depressed about it. Who doesn't want to benefit the township, who doesn't want to return to the hometown to sing the "Great Wind Song", but he can't control the Yellow River.

The words were far away, but it was said that the minister of Wuying Hall acquiesced in the Queen Mother's tossing of Lord Li, but he still continued to be silent and did not say a word about Li You's recital.

Because what is laid out in those imposing and aggressive words is the truth. Could it be that Wan Guifei of the Chenghua Dynasty and Zheng Guifei of the Wanli Dynasty shook the country? Isn't it true that the emperor of the Apocalypse Dynasty's nurse mother abused the main palace? Could it be that it is not a fact that the eighteen years of the Zhou Dynasty of the Chongzhen Dynasty were cowering and cowardly and did not dare to say a word? Since Xuande, other periods have not been much better.

The chapter is easy to understand, and everyone knows the absurdity in the palace of the national dynasty, and the problem of the national capital from generation to generation is even more difficult for civil officials. It is not unreasonable for Lord Li to summarize the reason as the loss of position in the middle palace and the decline of the queen leading to the breeding of demons in the palace.

Li Youzhi's meaning is that the draft is too overkill, and the selected princesses or queens are all jasper from poor families, and they are three no-women with no money, no power and no knowledge. Such a woman is qualified to be a good wife and mother in an ordinary family, but when she is a queen, she has no helpers and no reinforcements, only being bullied, and some can't even save her life.

If you are lucky, the queen will be happy if she becomes the queen mother, and if you are unlucky, she will die miserably.

The queen is also a figure in the world, is it in line with the ethics of the gang to be bullied indiscriminately without dignity? The nominal lord of the six palaces can't control the field, that is, the yin and yang are out of balance, and the natural palace is full of chaos and slaves. It will even affect the crown prince, causing the country's capital to be shaken and endangering the society.

It's not that others haven't thought about this problem, but the summary is not as thorough as Li You, who traveled from another time and space, after all, it is the strength of the time-traveler in terms of looking at history.

And Li You's recital is really not easy to oppose logically. If you want to oppose Li You's analysis, you have to put forward your own opinions. The problems in the palace are clearly here, if it has nothing to do with the weakness of the queen, then what is the reason? It can only be said that the Son of Heaven has lost his morality in the past dynasties... But everyone knows that people die for the sake of peace, and Yanjing is the ancestor first. Blaming today's son can still gain a reputation for daring to speak, but it is too much to accuse the first emperor, which is similar to scolding the ancestors.

Xu Cifu thought about it again and again, and finally stood up and agreed: "What Li You said is very true, no matter what happened before, no matter what happened in the future, this draft can be tried out." ”

Xu Cifu naturally has his considerations. Although the queen's life has nothing to do with him, his position does not depend on this, and he does not deliberately help Li You brush up his sense of existence.

But if the queen is more reliable and the palace stops a little, it will be a good thing for the cabinet sandwiched between the foreign dynasty and the court, especially the first assistant and the second assistant. He didn't want to be like those Zaifu scholars in the past, who were anxious about the broken affairs of the emperor's family, and if he was hard, he would lose the emperor's heart, and if he was weak, he would be accused of being a servile by the foreign court, and even the two sides were not human helplessly.

When the second assistant came out, the other ministers spoke in agreement. Those who don't deal with Li You have no entanglements of interest in this matter, so it doesn't matter, and they even tend to agree. Some people who have no hope of career begin to calculate whether they have a suitable daughter or granddaughter, anyway, Li You has already given a righteous and awe-inspiring truth, just follow it.

In such a situation, it is difficult for the Queen Mother to refute Li You's performance. All the secretaries in the palace sighed with emotion, someone has rolled to Yangzhou, and he can still move thousands of miles away. The national policy was set with just one piece, and Li You succeeded in speculating and gaining prestige.

But why did Li You's speculation always succeed? He's only a weak crown age! However, it doesn't seem to be a complete success, Lord Li once again provoked the hatred of the Queen Mother, and I really look forward to him planting a disgraced face on the river affairs during the flood season for everyone to see... It's time for God to cure him.

What everyone didn't expect was that in the next few months, God would indeed almost ash Lord Li's official road, but Lord Li's life was too rebellious, and it was outrageous to go against the sky, so he survived.

When the eldest princess of Guide in the Zhaofeng Palace learned about it, she stroked her lower abdomen with her hand and secretly sighed that she was indeed inferior to that man in terms of opportunism. However, what he said was indeed reasonable, and he was a little short-sighted before.

In fact, Li You, who is far away in Yangzhou Mansion, doesn't care about the result, the queen can do whatever she likes, as long as he attracts attention and completes the established goal of brushing up his presence and showing his talent and insight.

Yangzhou Mansion and Huai'an Mansion and Fengyang Mansion belong to the north of the Yangtze River, but Yangzhou City has always been a happy land, and the Huai River three hundred miles away seems to be far away from here.

Li You, the main hall of Jiangdu County, did not know what was going on in the court, and was busy preparing for the county examination. In addition, the servants, paper, and other materials used in the examination must be prepared in advance.

In the midst of the busyness, Master Li suddenly got a report that Mr. Jin came to visit with thousands of taels of money.

This is the first time that Jin Million has visited his son-in-law in the county office, and Lord Li thought about it, so he ordered Jin Million to be introduced into the Houya Flower Hall to narrate.

When the golden million saw Li You, he said: "The old man came here and wanted to make up all the salt he owed, so as not to embarrass the virtuous son-in-law!" ”

Li You said secretly, this old man is afraid of losing face and pockets, and has always refused to make up for the so-called arrears of the "salt class", but today he took the initiative to send money to the county office, on the one hand, he was more convinced of himself, and on the other hand, he asked for something.

Seeing that Li You was silent, Jin Million took the initiative to say: "This year, the rated salt introduction in Jiangdu County, as well as the salt tax payable, are all wrapped up in the old man!" I will not make the performance of a virtuous son-in-law ugly! ”

One more puzzle solved, please continue... Li You still held his breath and remained silent.

It's not that he is arrogant and rude to his father-in-law, the same thing is also different from person to person. Taking out this money is regarded as a great sincerity to others to show him, and it deserves to be treated with enthusiasm.

But for eight thousand taels of gold, it can only be regarded as throwing stones to ask for directions. If you show enthusiasm for this, it is too shallow and unseen in the world.

In the face of his son-in-law's silence, Jin Yuanwai, who had taken the initiative to throw out two conditions in a row for him to speak, finally knew the true meaning of the words "silence is golden". He started to say something else: "That Gaoyou Du Zhengjian is an old acquaintance of the old man, for the sake of the past, can the virtuous son-in-law let him go?" ”

Li You's face was serious, "He violated the law of the country, how to punish his own national law!" ”

Jin Million seemed to sigh and said, "There is only one child left in the Du family? Poor and pitiful! ”

"The Du family still has to make a living, if you have a way, please help one or two." Li You didn't plan to go around in circles, so he asked directly.

Jin Yuanwai was surprised and delighted. What is surprising is that Li You really wants to intervene in the salt industry, and this pattern is about to change again. The good thing is that Li You's background is all over the world, if he is willing to partner with him, wouldn't it be equivalent to having another umbrella for himself?

Jin Million knew that Li You had a request in this regard, and said to him, "The old man has a young man in his family who reads well, can he take the county exam online?" ”

This is to speak for all the hosts, especially the salt merchants, Jin Million has been asked to do so in the county test these days, and he must talk about it in front of his son-in-law, and now his son-in-law is asking for it, and it is the right time to speak.

When Li You heard his father-in-law mention that he had forbidden the resident population to participate in the county examination, he knew that he had come to negotiate conditions for this today. The salt class silver in front, Du Zhengjian or something, are just introductions. He also looked at him left and right: "I heard that Sister Bao has two younger sisters, and the little one is in the boudoir?" ”

Jin Million was very surprised that Li You suddenly mentioned his little daughter, "What does this mean by virtuous son-in-law?" ”

Li You smiled and said, "The draft is coming, do you want your daughter to be selected?" ”

Jin Million was furious, and reprimanded with his sleeves: "Despicable and shameless! ”

Thinking about it outside Jin Yuan, this Li You must have threatened himself with his daughter, as long as he didn't comply, he would find a way to get his daughter selected.

There is always a bottom line in life. When there is inconsistency, even if relatives are scheming for their own interests, there is nothing to fight, fighting but not breaking, and it is the long-term way for brothers to settle accounts. But knowing that she is your sister-in-law, it is too despicable and indecent to threaten her nakedly. Li You really wants to tear his face completely?

successfully provoked the anger of the old man, Li You laughed and said, "You misunderstood! The official asks such a question, and he has his own reason! Anyway, she is also Sister Bao's own sister, how could this official let her suffer! ”

(To be continued)