Chapter 22 The Palace

Time passes, in a blink of an eye from autumn to winter, has been in the imperial study for more than 3 months, Ruyi also unconsciously knows a lot of things, the situation in the court, officials and party members and the like do not know how many, there is basically a law, generally at the end of the month, most of the excerpts are more invitations, and at the beginning of the month, they are pulling each other's skins, and there are more restrictions. Everything has a law, looking at it this way, the emperor is still good, if you want to make the huge country run, it is not the emperor's work alone, how many officials play a role in it, so even if the emperor knows that some officials are corrupt and self-interested, he will turn a blind eye to it.

The emperor of this dynasty is Ouyang Tiangang, and the three princes are Ouyang Yunjizhou, Ouyang Lin, Qingzhou and Ouyang Ze. The three kings do not often enter the palace, but there are often folds come up, generally the folds of the three kings and the three princes are directly faced with the saint, unlike the local excerpts, which are assigned by the internal affairs office to the three princes to read first, and then the important ones are presented to the heavens. Emperor Tiangang, recently also listened to Ruyi's advice, every morning after the court, are a simple exercise, sometimes walking, sometimes running, can always see, a middle-aged uncle dressed in bright yellow, followed by a gray palace villain, one after the other running, sometimes around the imperial study, sometimes around the Cheng Qian Palace, sometimes around the pond, after exercising and then go to the imperial study to work, sometimes not busy, after lunch the emperor also went to the harem to slip around, learn things, appreciate flowers, appreciate beauty, listen to a little song or something. Including sleeping at night, they have been a little more modest, before the emperor wanted the royal family to spread out and reproduce, but now he is also doing what he can, after all, they are all old and can't always lay eggs. Let it be, the emperor learned in the three months he spent together.

Ruyi is not more nervous and cautious than when she just entered the palace, and she can sometimes joke with the emperor, she has no father and mother since she was a child, and her father complex has risen day by day, and she feels that it would be great if the emperor was her father, and it would be a great honor to have such a father, so she served more attentively during the day, and the little maids in her yard were also familiar, when she was fine, listen to them tell her story when she was a child, and pass the time, in fact, there are really not many times when Ruyi is fine, most of the time, It is Yin Shi is already in the imperial study, and the emperor sleeps when she sleeps, as long as she can fall asleep next to the bed, often do not wash, the maids in her courtyard have also become two shifts, one class to serve her to get up, one class to serve her to sleep, the rest of the little maids are very idle, the main one can not see each other for a day, and there is no need to arrange food, so Ruyi's residence was established into the palace is not the most desirable place for the maid who is not motivated, and many maids and maids have compared this place to heaven. And because of Ruyi's suggestion, there are too many times to appear with the emperor, and there are ministers who have begun to come to set up, everyone in the palace knows that this Dong Yiru is ah, now he is a big red man in front of the emperor, the cultivation object, and they run together every day, not to mention that the people in the palace look up to it, and they are respectful, even those below the concubine are in a hurry to curry favor with the knot, in exchange for the emperor to look at it differently, let alone the ministers outside, the high-ranking and powerful ones disdain to please a maid, but they will not offend, those petty officials, Often courting in various capacities.

Ruyi was very unaccustomed at first, she thought she couldn't help these people anything, but she didn't know how to tell these big people about their troubles, and then she was very busy, and it didn't happen all the time, so be it, and then she got used to it, maybe where she went, suddenly came out of a shy woman, Ying Ying bowed, said 80 turns, and finally pushed her hand to send a fragrant powder, always pondered for a while, only to understand, it turned out to be the emperor. Later, it was no wonder, and she could greet the ministers of the court with a smile, and occasionally mention a few words, so that her waist was gradually bulging, and she had never seen so many silver tickets.

One day, Ruyi gave the emperor all the silver tickets, and said, "This is a little bit of my heart donated to our treasury, and I hope the emperor will accept it with a smile." ”

The emperor looked at it, counted them one by one, there were as many as 5,600 taels, and smiled, "Hahahahaha, this is the reward you usually receive from officials?" ”

Ruyi immediately knelt down, "Exactly, the courtiers don't dare to hide privately, they want to give it to the treasury, the courtiers don't want to collect it, but the magic is one foot high, the road is one foot high, they are not fair to the courtiers, they can't prevent it"

The emperor stood up and said, "Hahahahaha, it's very honest, is it useless for you to ask for money?" That's a lot of money. ”

Ruyi continued, "The courtiers also love silver taels, but they are really useless in this palace, the food and clothing are provided by the emperor, and the courtiers have no other needs." ”

The emperor also said, "The other officials are for the sake of officials and power, they are all for the silver, they are not as good as a woman, okay, you get up, these silver tickets are taken back, I will allow you to collect the fly profits in the future, but make a list and tell me who gave me how many silver taels, okay?" ”

"Courtiers obey orders"

"From this, it can be seen how much benefit the eunuchs around me should receive."

From then on, the Celestial Empire began a crackdown on corruption.