The Imperial Historical Observatory is located in the south of the Imperial Inner Castle, not far from the west of Suzaku Avenue, and the young men who are running fast have already begun to beat the drums and shout their grievances.

Seeing someone come out of the Imperial History Terrace, one by one the figures shouted to find Qi Yushi, the official on duty was frightened half to death after seeing the posture of the crowd, if it weren't for the fact that there was no smashing behavior in the crowd, such a black pressure would have thought it was going to rebel.

"Let's be quiet, let's be quiet, what is quiet, Lord Qi Yushi has not come back yet, what is the same as what I said."

As soon as the crowd heard that Qi Yushi was not there, they suddenly quieted down, and they all looked at each other and didn't know what to do, Yun Bailing's big eyes turned, and he said loudly to the crowd: "Then let's go to him, let's go to the palace and wait." ”

"Yes, yes, let's go, go to Chengtianmen."

"Go to Chengtianmen."

The shouts went east like wind and grass, and the people who did not crowd into the center to see the excitement instinctively went east after hearing the shouts.

A group of people walked a short distance to the east, and arrived at the Vermilion Bird Avenue, and then a group of people began to chatter and discuss, this Vermilion Bird Avenue corresponds to the Chengtian Gate, the south gate of the Emperor's Inner City.

Today's court is noisy because of one thing, according to Si Tianjian said, this year will be very hot, Zhang Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry proposed to do something earlier, which would have been a good thing, but this money is not something that his Ministry of Industry can provide.

The problem is here, the Ministry of Industry Shangshu asks for money to do things, the Hubu Shangshu does not give money, and the Hubu does not allocate money, so all construction is empty talk, so the court began to divide into two factions.

The faction led by Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry advocated that money should be allocated to the Ministry of Industry immediately to build water conservancy and deal with the heat and drought in advance; The faction led by the head of the household department Shangshu believes that the hot weather does not mean a great drought, and that the tax revenue is limited, and once a lot of money is lost, it will be difficult to come up with money to relieve other disasters at that time, so how to deal with it?

Zhang Shangshu is older, but in the crowd standing in front of the court, it is still medium, and those who can achieve this position are around fifty to seventy, Zhang Shangshu said to Hubu Shangshu: "I think you just take the money of the empire as yours, you miser, there is a big drought in the hot days, and you simply care about the safety of the people." ”

"If you don't know the price of firewood and rice, you know how to spend money, in case this money is lost, will it be made up by your Shangshu Mansion? If you open your mouth, the safety of the people is in danger, in case your money is wasted, and there is no money for disaster relief when you encounter other disasters, then you will not care about the safety of the people. The bearded and glaring Tobe Shangshu was very dissatisfied with what the Ministry of Industry said.

Zhang Shangshu bowed to the emperor, stretched out his hand and pointed at the household Shangshu and said, "Lord Shangshu's words are wrong, isn't he saying that my empire is full of disasters and difficulties?" The emperor is a generation of saints, how can there be a catastrophe in this world? ”

"Shut your stinky mouth, you sycophant, I naturally know that the emperor Shengming goes straight to the sky, then you shouldn't spend money to build water conservancy, it will be fine, and the mountains and rivers will be safe."

Listening to the words of the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of Industry was stunned for a moment, what he said before seemed to have brought him to the ditch, and when he looked back, none of the people in the Ministry of Industry who only knew how to bow their heads could speak, so they could only complain to the emperor: "Please also ask the emperor to save the people of the world and raise the emperor's holy name." ”

Before the old emperor could speak while sitting on the dragon chair, the guards in front of the hall began to draw their swords, and outside the main hall, the guards of the Dayuan Army began to warn, "Command both sides, send orders to all directions, block all gates, block all gates, prepare for war, prepare for war." ”

There was a sudden chaos in the court, and several generals in a group of military attachés immediately gathered under the steps of the emperor's dragon chair. ”

Several generals guarded the emperor in all directions, a group of inferior military attaches began to surround the second circle, and there were many civil officials who were not weak and looked around, especially in the air, for fear that the enemy would appear in the air, and a touch of red clothes quietly appeared on the beams in the main hall.

A few older officials subconsciously went to see the position of the military attache as the leader, and there was always a person standing there, who was dressed in white and could go to the temple with a sword, or without court clothes, without kneeling and bowing, and even given a seat.

That figure has been in the court for many years, but people who have experienced that era have subconsciously looked for his figure, it seems that the white clothes are there, the country and the society are worry-free, and the world is not chaotic.

Realizing that thirty years have passed, many people in the hall were stunned, and the old emperor on the dragon throne looked at that position blankly, and his old and cloudy eyes slowly shed tears.

After a while, the footsteps of the neat preparations outside dispersed, and a god general knelt down on one knee in front of the emperor after entering the main hall, hugged his fists and said: "Report to the emperor, it's not an enemy attack, it's a ......."

The god general looked at Zhang Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, and after hearing that there was nothing to do, Zhang Shangshu, who was still thinking about how to pick money out of the pocket of the household department, saw that the god looked at him, and immediately panicked, he didn't say that something had happened, but it was not a good thing to make such a big move.

Several generals protected the emperor's dragon throne before retreating, and the old emperor looked at the god general who didn't dare to speak indifferently and said, "What? Do you have to look at other people's eyes when you speak in the court? Do you know who the emperor is? ”

The god general was suddenly so frightened that he knelt on his knees and couldn't stop kowtowing, Zhang Shangshu also knelt down in a hurry, even if he didn't know what was going on, the god general knelt there and didn't dare to raise his head and said: "The people outside are shouting grievances, and there are no other violent acts, but the number of people is too many, and there are people gathering here, the reason should be that a child of Zhang Shangshu's family fell in love with a young lady in a rich merchant in the west of the city during the Lantern Festival. ”

Suddenly, everyone's eyes looked at the Ministry of Works, there were six Shangshu in this court, and there was only one surnamed Zhang, plus the emperor also reprimanded Zhang Shangshu for not being strict in housekeeping, but everyone couldn't figure out what happened to cause public anger.

Without waiting for the emperor to ask again, the god general continued: "Since this matter reached the emperor's ears after the Lantern Festival, the son of Zhang Shangshu's family still did not let go, and began to use the lives of the Li family as a threat to force the woman to marry him as a concubine, and hyped that the woman was worried about the lives of her parents and the whole family, so she did not dare to refuse. ”

"After everyone knows, this morning the son of Zhang Shangshu's family rushed into the rich merchant with the guards of Shangshu Mansion, tied up the family, beat them, and then tied the girl into a sedan chair and brought it back to Zhang's Mansion, and the people were able to know that this woman was not voluntarily married into Zhang's Mansion after being stopped by Yun Gongzi of Xueyu Villa, and I heard that Zhang Gongzi also said that the girl was going to report to the official afterwards, and no one would believe it, after all, it was rumored that she was going to marry into Zhang Shangshu's Mansion."

Although the god general was unwilling to offend Zhang Shangshu, he had said everything, so it was better to finish speaking, so he continued: "The people are asking Qi Yushi to take a good look at Zhang Shangshu's Mansion, and want to find out if the girl's house that has disappeared in the capital over the years is all done by Shangshufu, they say that Zhang Shangshufu even wants to rob the women of rich merchants directly, and the small family doesn't even need to make a show." ”

Zhang Shangshu knelt on the ground, beads of sweat the size of beans fell to the ground, he knew that he was finished, this position may not be able to sit still, no matter what happened, no matter whose fault it was, as long as it was a public anger, then someone must be pushed out to eliminate the public anger, and he would be demoted at least and exiled at worst.

The emperor sighed deeply, slowly closed his eyes, no one in the hall dared to speak, after a long time, the emperor opened his eyes and waved his hand to signal several generals who were protecting the dragon chair to retreat, and his eyes glanced faintly in the hall, "My good official, the foot of the Son of Heaven in the capital robbed the people's daughter, I reprimanded and still did not give up, what a great majesty, such a great majesty, really a great majesty." ”

The ministers of the court suddenly knelt on the ground in a panic, the emperor's series of great majesty, everyone knew that the emperor was angry, and sure enough, the emperor continued: "Someone dares to do what I dare not do, more majestic than me, more free to do than me, or how about this dragon chair for you Zhang Shangshu to sit on?" ”

"My emperor is angry." The officials of the place shouted in unison.

Zhang Shangshu sat paralyzed on the ground, kowtowed desperately, didn't dare to say anything, the emperor asked him to make a dragon chair, he knew what would greet him, and the emperor looked at Zhang Shangshu who couldn't help kowtowing again.

"Bang!" The angry emperor slapped the case in front of him violently, and roared angrily: "Yu Shitai has visited you, I have told you, but this son of your Shangshu Mansion actually dares, how dare you?" Zhang Shangshu, how dare you Shangshufu? I asked you to stop, and you didn't stop in Shangshufu, what do you want? ”

"The minister doesn't dare, the minister has no way to discipline him, and he asks the emperor to punish him, and I hope the emperor won't be angry with the dragon body." Zhang Shangshu kowtowed desperately, only hoping that the emperor could miss some old feelings a little, but the emperor no longer looked at him.

The chaotic officials in the court stood up in an orderly manner again, and the old emperor looked at the big eunuch beside him, and said coldly: "Go, go and ask my people why they don't go to the Yamen to report such a thing, why don't you go to Dali Temple to report the case, why do you want to go to the Yushitai, why do you want to make trouble in this imperial inner city?" Let's see if someone has blinded me. ”