A cadre of ministers thought that this time Liu Ge Lao, eighty percent was about to kick his legs, but he didn't expect the imperial doctor to press down on the middle of the person with one finger, pinch his mouth and pour a bowl of soup with the medicine pot, Liu Ge Lao's breath eased again.

Wu Anhou was also unexpected, looking at Liu Ge Lao with twelve points of entanglement, and secretly hated in his heart: the thousand-year-old king, the thousand-year-old turtle! The old immortal was clearly already standing up and convulsing, thinking that he couldn't be saved.

Liu Ge Lao also sighed all his life: It's really a ghost gate to seek wealth and wealth! An empty promise of the third product almost cost him his life. If my son doesn't fight in the future, I'm really sorry for Lao Tzu's ghost gate today.

Wu Anhou and Liu Ge Lao glanced at each other with concern. Liu Ge Lao Ming, trembling and standing up, not arguing with Feng Xiuyao, the old man walked to the Queen Mother's kang with tears, and begged bitterly: "Queen Mother, the old minister has served the first emperor for decades, I dare not say that I have worked hard and made great achievements, but I am also conscientious, and I am dedicated to the court, but I ended up eating in vain. If the court does not dispose of Shi Zhongyuan, the old minister will return to his hometown to clarify his intentions! ”

Feng Xiuyao pushed away his brother Feng Xiuyuan, who was blocking in front of him, and stepped in front of the Queen Mother, eager to stomp Liu Ge to death. said indignantly: "Lord Liu, it's okay for you to sue the old man and return to his hometown, how can you use this to blackmail the court?" ”

Prince Rong couldn't help but say: "This matter is still under investigation, and the conclusion is still inconclusive, Lord Liu can't rely on the old and sell the old, and openly transgress the rules of the imperial court." ”

Liu Ge always eats scales - he has an iron heart to fight to the end with the master. Putting aside the two mountains in front of him, he walked directly to the old man and said hatefully: "Shi Zhongyuan, when the old man asks you, you have to answer honestly." ”

Master Shi nodded earnestly.

"In the refugee camp in the capital, there is a porridge shack, do you know about this?"

Master Shi felt a 'chuckle' in his heart, and quickly raised his head and asked, "What did Liu Ge Lao say?" ”

"Don't play dumb! It is said that there is a porridge shack in the refugee camp, which burns stoves every day, coarse grain and thick porridge, one bowl per person a day, and one yellow noodle nest head per day. But you're behind the scenes? ”

Master Shi looked at Liu Ge Lao noncommittally. Feng Xiuyao couldn't help but say, "This matter also stumbled on your feet?" ”

Elder Liu Ge turned around and said to Feng Xiuyao in a serious tone: "Little Lord Feng, don't underestimate this bowl of porridge, this is Liu Bei's child-buying people's hearts." ”

"I don't understand, the court has no time to take care of the hungry people now, and the master is helping on the side, what's wrong?" Feng Xiuyao had already ignored his brother's obstruction, and a white eye just floated into the eyes of the Queen Mother.

"This is wolf ambition! Regardless of the face of the court, he solicited the hearts of the people for himself, his heart can be punished, and his heart can be punished! ”

Feng Xiuyao walked up to Liu Ge Lao and said very disdainfully: "Mencius said, 'If you are poor, you will be good to yourself, and if you are good, you will help the world. 'I, a soldier and a war, know this truth, Liu Ge has read the sage books all his life, and he claims to be a disciple of Confucius and Mencius, and he has even forgotten the words of his grandfather. Master Shi paid out of his own pocket to help the hungry people, he was originally an example of the court, how could you say this, and he became a deceitful and famous thief. In the end, he was born as a civil official, and he said with a steel mouth on both sides, the dead let you say that they lived, and the living let you spray to death! ”

Wu Anhou kept coughing and signaled Feng Xiuyao not to say any more, Feng Xiuyao couldn't stop at all. However, Liu Ge Lao coughed a few times on his back, so he didn't dare to refute, and let Feng Xiuyao humiliate himself in a roundabout way.

"Shi Zhongyuan, the old man asked you, how much is your salary? How much is the silver of the bank? How much is charcoal silver? How much do you spend at home? How much can I balance each year? How much does the porridge shed cost for a day? Where did you get the money? ”

Liu Ge Lao asked seven questions in one breath, and sweat beads began to appear on the forehead of the master again, even though he secretly hated Liu Ge Lao's insidiousness in his heart, but in front of the Queen Mother and the important ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, of course, Liu Ge Lao could not be accused of corruption. It is even more impossible to declare the secrets in the hearts of the Manchu civil and military forces.

Prince Rong obviously didn't expect Liu Ge Lao to suddenly come to such a hand, and he was also a little anxious and sweating. However, Feng Xiuyao continued to bite Liu Ge Lao with a normal face.

"Elder Ge is a good question, and I also have a few questions I want to ask Elder Ge."

Liu Ge Lao obviously didn't want to collide with the Feng family's forces head-on today, so he stuffed his face into his crotch and said, "Little Lord Feng, you are still young, you have not experienced hardship, you have a strong temperament, and you are not good at speaking. These old men don't care about you, today's old man is going to fight with Shi Zhongyuan, so don't stick to Lord Xiao Feng. ”

"Xiu Yao, this is the East Warm Pavilion of Cining Palace, not the back garden of your house, stand where you should stand, don't say things that shouldn't be said!" Feng Xiuyuan couldn't help it, and he also persuaded his younger brother sharply.

Feng Xiuyao raised his head proudly, standing straight in front of Liu Ge Lao, a whole head higher, and suddenly there was a spoof, almost squatting on the ground with a 'ah-' spoof. In this way, he did not let go of Liu Ge Lao and said: "Liu Ge Lao, you don't want to hide, I will now seek justice for those brothers under my command who have been excluded by you, don't you always encircle your group of scribe-born Qingliu and attack us to use military power to suppress the pen?" I'll try to press you today, and see if it's Lord Liu's waist pole that is hard? It's still Lao Tzu's bayonet hard! ”

The Queen Mother still closed her eyes and remained silent. With the eyes of the heart, look at the farce in the temple.

Elder Liu Ge tilted his head, took a step back and said, "The old man is a veteran of the two dynasties, and he is not as knowledgeable as you, an illiterate martial artist. ”

"If you want to hide, no way! Let me ask you, how much is Liu Ge a year? How much is the silver that is raised? How much is charcoal silver? How much does it cost? How much does it cost to have two outer rooms? How much does it cost for the eldest son to smoke a big cigarette? ”

Liu Ge Lao's eyes were in a hurry, sticky to the corners of his eyes, and he stammered and couldn't speak.

"I'm a rough man, I grew up beating in the barracks since I was a child, and I don't play abacus well, so I'll close the accounts for you!"

Liu Ge didn't expect that he would kill such a Cheng Cheng Jin halfway today, and there was no domineering attitude on his face.

"The elder of the pavilion receives 180 taels of Yulu from the imperial court every year, which is the ancestral system, and there are an additional 15,000 taels of incorruptible silver. This is also the imperial court's account, which is understandable! As for the little bit of ice charcoal given by the imperial court, I won't be verbose, I will only say the following, Liu Ge Lao plucked up his ears and listened carefully, he said something wrong, you remember to mention me. ”

Master Shi glanced at Feng Xiuyao gratefully, but he didn't expect that his subordinates, who had been on official affairs for ten years and had no private contacts, would actually be able to help him speak up in front of the Queen Mother.

"The old man is talking about Shi Zhongyuan's corruption and bribery, and Lord Xiao Feng always pulls the old man to do something!"

"When you talk about others, don't you allow others to speak of you? I don't want to hear you talk about Master Shi today, I just want to talk about you. You always say that we deduct military salaries and take advantage of empty salaries, buy and sell military rations for the imperial court, and make black money...... But whenever there is a hint of wind and grass, you will hold on to it, forcing other people's families to ruin, and you will take your place. That year, you teamed up with a few stinkers to force my right-hand man to death, and replaced him with a weak scholar who couldn't ride a horse, couldn't draw a bow, and beat the drums of war, and was so frightened that he peed his pants......"

Feng Xiuyao's ridicule caused a room of ministers to burst into laughter.

"Today, I will settle your account with you for my brother who died in vain, how much ice charcoal do you collect in winter and summer in each province every year?"

"Which minister of the imperial court doesn't accept some ice charcoal filial piety, does Lord Xiao Feng also want to take it out and talk about it?" Liu Ge Lao was already sweating like rain in his heart, and his face was still holding his face.

"Humph! You are really a fair and selfless person, the price is clearly marked, and the child is not bullied! ”

"Lord Xiao Feng, what do you mean by that?"

"Don't you understand Liu Ge?" Feng Xiuyao's words have been held back in his heart for many years, and he is almost holding back internal injuries. His brothers relied on a few taels of military salaries, and they couldn't even support their wives and children. had to operate secretly, and after several twists and turns, one of the younger brothers with no background just received an extra one or two hundred taels, but he didn't expect it to make people's heads fall to the ground.

Later, he inquired clearly, Liu Ge Lao betrayed his official mantle in disguise, and used the two saints of Confucius and Mencius to cover up his money-making essence with the avenue of respecting teachers and valuing education.

The Queen Mother knew what Feng Xiuyao was going to say, so she opened her eyes leisurely and said to Feng Xiuyao: "Admiral Feng, today is a case of military food robbery in Zhili, if you have something to say, let's discuss it in a few days!" ”

Liu Ge Lao breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the Queen Mother gratefully.

Feng Xiuyao knelt in front of the kang, hugged his fists and said: "Queen Mother, there are only 100,000 catties of grain in total, Xiuyao said that if he doesn't take it seriously, he will be transported to Fujian without fail, and he will only have one catty in the hands of the soldiers, and he will eat for one day at most, and it will be two days if he dies." As for this little bit of, is it difficult for a veteran who was born and died? ”

Liu Ge Lao breathed a sigh of relief, stroked his beard and said righteously: "Two days? The soldiers were hungry for two days and lost the battle, who is on the head? The imperial court sent troops, nearly 10 million taels of silver before and after, and spent it like water, and something went wrong at the joints, can this be small? ”

Feng Xiuyao glanced at Liu Ge Lao, and was angry, he really wanted to grab this old man and beat him all over the ground to find his teeth. "Queen Mother, the army is now in Fujian, and the Jiangnan Grain Road must not sit idly by, for the sake of these 100,000 catties of grain, we can't chill the hearts of the front-line soldiers!"

Liu Ge was afraid that the Queen Mother would be bewitched by Feng Xiuyao, so he hurriedly stopped and said, "Lord Xiao Feng, the soldiers are concerned about the imperial court, the emperor and the queen mother!" It's not his teacher Zhongyuan! If you say this, Shi Zhongyuan deserves death! ”

Feng Xiuyao knew that he was speechless, stared at Liu Ge Lao viciously, and said ruthlessly: "The imperial court has a beetle like you, so it always can't win a big battle. ”

There are already two factions in the warm pavilion, there are Wenchen who supports Liu Ge Lao, and there are military attachés who support Feng Xiuyao, but the queen mother did not speak, although it is a room, it is still silent.

The Queen Mother listened for a long time, her face was already full of tiredness, and she said leisurely: "The emperor has recently bowed to the Holy Peace, since you have run to the mourning family, you must not be able to make up your mind." ”

More than a dozen important ministers hurriedly knelt down and said in one voice: "The ministers are incompetent and disturb the queen mother's retirement." ”

The Queen Mother waved her hand and said: "Today, the mourning family has also listened to it for a long time, on the matter, on the person, Shi Zhongyuan is the direct supervisor of the grain road, the military grain was robbed, and he bears the first responsibility; The governor and the governor of Zhili were not well supervised, and they were secondarily responsible. Now that the army is far away in Fujian to kill the enemy for the country, if our rear is a mess, how can the front line fight with peace of mind? ”

More than a dozen people said in unison: "The Queen Mother is wise, the Queen Mother is wise!" ”

"Depose Shi Zhongyuan from the post of supervising the grain road to set an example. The governor of Zhili and the governor of Zhili are exempted from one year of punishment as a sign of punishment. That's it! ”

"Mother, this matter can't be decided in such a hurry!" Prince Rong stepped forward and grabbed the Queen Mother's arm.

"Queen Mother, you deal with Master Shi like this, our soldiers from the army are unwilling!" Feng Xiuyao said bitterly.

"Nonsense! You have repeatedly offended Elder Liu Ge today, so don't you hurry up and apologize! The Queen Mother stared at Feng Xiuyao and said.

Although Liu Ge Lao calculated that the Queen Mother had always disliked Shi Zhongyuan, he didn't expect the Queen Mother to be so ruthless and ruthless, and directly wiped out Shi Zhongyuan's official position to the brink. I was very relieved in my heart, and looked at Feng Xiuyao triumphantly, waiting for Feng Xiuyao's apology.

Everyone was flattened, and Master Shi was still kneeling on the ground, as if he had forgotten. Prince Rong walked up to the master sadly and said sadly: "Father-in-law, Yuyan is incompetent and has not been able to help the adult!" ”

Master Shi stood up tremblingly, shook his head with a sad face, and suddenly his legs went limp, and he fainted directly.