Chapter 11: The Early Dynasty
As soon as I entered the Xuanzheng Palace, I walked straight to the dragon chair at the top, and then sat down with a very dignified ass.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Chitose Chitose, Chitose!" Hundreds of civil and military officials lined up on both sides of the hall, kneeling down and saluting together, and the posture really shocked me.
"Flat!" I said in a loud voice.
Then Manager Xu shouted again at the top of his voice: "Flat!" The hundred officials said neatly: "His Royal Highness Prince Xie!" Then he got up and stood up.
I learned from General Manager Xu that the administrative organs of Yuguo on this day were also divided into six departments: officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and workers. Even the affairs I am responsible for are no different from the ancient six parts I know.
It may be because they haven't been to the court for too many years, and the ministers after the flat body all stood in place, bowing their heads, not speaking, and not playing. In the end, I had to throw a brick down first, hoping to draw out the golden and jade words of the hundreds of civil and military officials in this day.
How do you lose this brick? I had an idea and said, "Yue Shangshu, yesterday the palace ordered you to pull out half of the yellow flowers outside the city and plant seasonal crops, can you do it?" If you have any difficulties, you can talk to this palace. ”
Hubu Yue Shangshu actually knelt on the ground with a "plop" sound: "Your Highness, yesterday Weichen has destroyed half of the yellow flowers according to your instructions, but there has been no rain in the past two days, and I am afraid that this new seed will not sprout, and it will be wasted, Weichen ...... We-Chen......"
That's right! Yesterday, I patronized them to pull cauliflower and plant food, but they forgot that it was a hot day, the water in the soil evaporated quickly, and there was no rain in the past two days, and the ground was already dry, plus the farming tools of this era were crude and simple, basically not much stronger than slash-and-burn farming, and the seeds planted in the dry soil could be roasted by the sun at noon, let alone germinate.
If I had known this, I wouldn't have let him take someone to pull out the rape flower. There is an idiom that says how to say, chickens fly and eggs beat, which is the current situation.
There is also this Yue Shangshu, yesterday's bold words and ambitions, and the co-authorship is all about wine! In modern times, I know what it means to drink and spit out the truth, but it's all nonsense that men use to coax women to talk and play. I didn't expect that in ancient times, men even dared to coax the prince to play after drinking!
If Gu Tianba's temperament was followed, he would have been dragged out and cut down. But I'm not Gu Tianba, and I won't cut people casually. Besides, since Yue Shangshu can use the strength of wine to say those lofty ideals yesterday, at least it proves that he once had those dreams! Even if it's a dream, it's better than never thought about it. At least his conscience for the people is not dead.
Now I'm not very familiar with this court, if I really pull out all the courtiers who don't do anything and cut them down, won't I also sing alone? There is a famous saying that "the dwarf team picks the general", which is very reasonable.
But this rape flower has been pulled out, and I can't really let Yue Shangshu replant it for me, besides, even if I replant it, I won't be able to live! What to do? When will it rain before planting food? But if it doesn't rain all the time, will so many fertile fields be barren?
Suddenly, I thought of something again, and raised my voice: "Twenty miles away from the capital is the Canghe River, as long as a few canals are dug up to divert the water of the Canghe River to irrigate the land, it should not be troublesome!" This matter was left to the Ministry of Works, and the water of the Nacang River must be brought to the fields within five days. ”
"Your Highness spares your life!"
Before I could finish speaking, the ministers of the Ministry of Works knelt down in the center of the main hall. What's the situation, it's just digging a few ditches, and it's not asking them to dig the Crystal Palace for me! As long as the labor is reasonably distributed and the project is divided into several sections, let alone five days, if there are people and siblings, it can be dug in one day.
"Ministry of Works, this palace is just asking you to dig a ditch, and I don't want your life! What are you doing taking the lead in crying like this? Or do you think that this method of diversion and irrigation is inappropriate, and you have a better way to sow the fertile fields outside the city? "If you don't divert water for irrigation, wouldn't it be possible to ask a mage to ask for rain?
"Wechen don't dare! It's just that this ministry really can't spare a single worker and a craftsman to dig this canal! ”
"What about people?" I can hear Mr. Xu say that there are countless skilled craftsmen in Yuguo this day, and he has been registered in the Ministry of Industry and made a book, which can be called at any time.
"Your Highness!" Without waiting for the Ministry of Industry Shangshu to speak, Mr. Xu ran to me in small steps and whispered in my ear: "The craftsmen have been requisitioned to repair your tomb!" ”
It suddenly occurred to me that this day Yuguo did not believe in immortality like other countries on this continent. Therefore, Gu Tianba was not obsessed with cultivating immortal clothing pills, but believed that people would go to another world after death, so he overhauled the mausoleum and prepared to continue to enjoy himself after death.
I don't know what happens when people die, after all, I was sent here just after I died. But according to legend, after death, people are going to go to the underworld, which refers to the mausoleum, even if the mausoleum is built to be luxurious, when it comes to the underworld, it should be peeled and skinned, and the oil pot should be put under the oil pot. If you want to suffer less sin after death, it is not something that can be solved by repairing a mausoleum, as long as you do less bad things when you are alive, you will naturally suffer less after death, and maybe you can go directly to heaven and be a little angel with wings!
"Then transfer all the craftsmen who repair the tomb to dig the canal!" I shook it off, and it was settled.
"This ......" The hall was in an uproar.
"Didn't you hear what Motonomiya said?"
"Your Highness, Your Highness's mausoleum is the foundation of the country, and this craftsman must not leave the mausoleum, otherwise it will ......"
I understand what this waiter of the Ministry of Rites wants to express, just like Cao Cao, the purpose of repairing the seventy-two tombs is to confuse the public and prevent people from discovering where his real mausoleum is! After the construction of some imperial tombs in ancient times, all the craftsmen who participated in the construction would be killed or put in the tomb for burial, which was also to prevent the craftsmen from telling the location of the imperial tomb and preventing theft.
As for the foundation of the country, the ancients paid attention to feng shui luck, and if the cemetery is good, the descendants will be prosperous, and the country will be rich and the people will be strong. But a really good feng shui bureau, even if you are hiding and guarding now, there will always be a day when someone will be discovered, and then it will not be cheap for those tomb robbers who dig up graves and destroy corpses.
If I were to say to these ministers now that I don't need a mausoleum, would they believe it? Or will you think that I am going to have some kind of moth?
"Zhong Aiqing is too worried! The mausoleum of this palace has its own gods from all directions to protect each other, who in the world dares to peep? "That's the reason! Hehe, even I think it's far-fetched! But it's like Gu Tianba's simple, rough, arrogant, and conceited brain can fantasize about it.
All the ministers knelt down in unison and shouted, "Your Highness is wise! ”
I secretly wanted to laugh, am I being wise? They were able to shout.
Seeing that Yue Shangshu made such a big mistake, I didn't punish him, and the ministers began to start from some trivial things that were tentative, and slowly moved closer to the right thing.
The prince has not been in court for five years, and their understanding of the prince is also judged from various palace banquets and various rumors, and the so-called rumors cannot be fully believed. Therefore, when I, the crown prince, appeared in front of the ministers in a fairly normal manner, they began to doubt the rumors they had heard, and even suspected that the bastard things that Gu Tianba did were deliberately touched by someone in the name of the prince.
As the saying goes, if you don't have hope, you won't be disappointed, and although my performance today has a lot of mistakes, the original intention and result are positive, no one is perfect, just think Gu Tianba is not a good person, but he is still a qualified prince. It's better than the rumored neither! Besides, which emperor is a completely good man, the way I am now has exceeded the expectations of these ministers.
And I also want to thank Gu Tianba for not going to court for five years, which made it easier for me to win the praise of most ministers, after the more and more passionate "Your Highness is wise". The Book of Rites began again.
"Your Royal Highness, yesterday you personally crowned Princess Anping, according to the ceremony, the princess should be matched with the princess's mansion, but this Princess Anping is the princess and concubine of the former emperor, and she will marry into the East Palace in the future. Whether the princess's mansion is built or not, please ask the prince to show it. ”
If she wants to stay in the Prime Minister's Mansion and govern those who have bullied her, then she will not build the Princess's Mansion and continue to live in the Prime Minister's Mansion. Besides, even if it is the Ministry of Industry that contributed to the construction of the Princess's Mansion, what does it matter to your Ministry of Rites? Return the gift! Is everything related to the word "rite" all the affairs of the Ministry of Rites? Why didn't I see you so active when I talked about opening a school just now!
Princess? The Crown Princess? Oh! I understand, the Ministry of Rites is a very particular question! Mu Yu is the crown princess appointed by the emperor himself, if I plan to marry her into the East Palace, then there is no need to build a princess's mansion, because we have all reached the age of marriage.
However, I made Mu Yu the princess at this time. What the Ministry of Rites Shangshu wants to ask is actually whether I plan to marry Mu Yu, or to put it more bluntly, do I plan to marry a woman like other normal men. Is it a man or a woman that I like?
Whether it is Gu Tianba or Lin Muyu, they are both women, and of course they will not marry another woman.
"Build a house!" I raised my voice;
"This ......" There was another uproar in the audience, but soon it fell silent again, and then, kneeling down again, shouted in unison: "Your Highness is wise!" ”
The prince broke his sleeves, you dare to say that you are wise? I think it's your sycophants who shoot wisely!
As soon as I arrived, I hurried to the East Palace, at this point, Qingyu should wake up! I still want to have breakfast with him, no, with breakfast! Don't go! But I didn't want to, but I ran into a person wearing the same clothes as me, and then I saw him wearing a crown of beads. Although I haven't seen it before, I have already guessed that this is my cheap father, Gu Tianba's father.
"Erchen has seen his father!" I don't know how Gu Tianba saluted her, the emperor's father, before, so I had to learn from the way those ministers worshiped me, and made a big bow respectfully.
"Prince, please get up!" My father hurriedly supported me, and the expression on his face seemed to be flattered and overwhelmed.
That's right, Gu Tianba is so arrogant, how can he respect the old and love the young like me. By the way, why is my father here? Since you're here, why don't you go to court?
Oh! I remembered that today was the first day of the new year, and he was the only morning pilgrimage of the month, but I sat on his dragon chair one step earlier than him, and he stood at a loss until the end of the early pilgrimage.
Oh, my God! What have I done?
But this father didn't mean to blame me, in fact, he didn't dare to blame! Alas, being an emperor is really enough to do his job.
After saying goodbye to my father, I instructed Mr. Xu to let him add another seat under the dragon chair, tomorrow morning, no matter whether my father will come or not, I won't snatch his chair to sit on anyway.