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It was the next day, and the emperor was having a royal meal. He was in a good mood today, and according to the report of the Ministry of Rites in the morning, the examination of the new department finally ended successfully.

There is another batch of fresh blood to replenish the officialdom of the dynasty, so the emperor has been smiling since he left the dynasty.

"This examination is also the most anticipated since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and there is also a young man who participated in the examination and submitted a great talent for water control. ”

At this time, only a few big eunuchs were serving at the imperial meal. The emperor took a few bites of the hundreds of dishes on the table before putting down his chopsticks and chatting with the eunuchs beside him.

"Congratulations to the emperor, you have recruited a group of talents. The big eunuch saw that the emperor was in a good mood and patted his ass diligently.

"Yes, but I still haven't seen the test paper of Fang Guancheng, it's hard to mention it in the early morning, who do you think you call to go to the Gongyuan today?" the emperor remembered something, and said again.

"The slave then went to find someone and sent a message to the cabinet and asked the elder to ask?"

The eunuchs in the palace were taboo to make friends with foreign ministers. In fact, the emperor ordered the eunuch to go to the tribute court to ask for the scroll on the first night, which also did not conform to the etiquette.

But if it goes through the cabinet elders, it will be much more formal for the eunuchs who do things.

"Let me think about it, I'm afraid that those cabinet elders will jump out against me, and this matter will be decided when I approve it. The Emperor shook his head.

After a meal of imperial food, the great eunuch ordered someone to remove the table. Under the service of the eunuchs, the emperor moved to the East Pole Palace, which was the main hall of the emperor's daily office.

At this moment, the time is already in the middle of the hour. Count it as the Overworld, which is seven or eight o'clock in the morning.

The emperor sat on the imperial chariot, his body was warm and warm by the sun, and he couldn't help but relax.

When I arrived at the East Pole Palace, naturally everything was ready, and batches of folds were sorted out by trusted eunuchs. The emperor is also very diligent, and after coming down from the imperial chariot and entering the palace, he did not hesitate, and went directly to the public case, ready to be reviewed.

Before opening a recital, a eunuch suddenly walked in outside the East Pole Palace, knelt on the ground and said: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Works, Shangshu Qi and Zheng are in an urgent matter, and they are kneeling outside the hall at this time." ”

The East Pole Hall is located in the outer hall of the Imperial Palace, and is very close to the cabinet and the six ministries. But despite this, according to the etiquette law, ordinary ministers of the third and fourth grades are not allowed to summon and cannot see the emperor.

There were only a few cabinet elders in the dynasty who could ask to see the emperor during the day.

If this Ministry of Industry Shangshu wants to see the emperor, he must first go through the cabinet, and a certain cabinet elder on duty will bring him to ask to see the emperor before he can be accepted.

At this time, it was not long after the early dynasty, and it stands to reason that the Ministry of Engineering Shangshu was already working in the office of the six departments, how to pass through the palace gate and kneel outside the East Pole Palace.

Fortunately, this Shangshu also knew that there was a mistake, and when he came to the outside of the East Pole Palace, he knelt on the ground and handed the steps to the emperor first.

"What do you want to talk about after the next dynasty?" The emperor put down the song in his hand, looked at the eunuch who passed the message inquiringly, thought about it and then ordered: "I don't want to bear the reputation of harshly criticizing my subordinates, you go and call Qi Hezheng in, but I want to see what is going on, and actually bypass the cabinet." ”

The eunuch answered, and came out of the East Pole Hall, and soon came to the square, and stood before a Pentecostal minister who was kneeling on the ground.

This person is Qi Hezheng, who is the secretary of the Ministry of the Three Grades of the National Dynasty, as one of the six head officials, in fact, he is already a rare important minister in the imperial court, and he has long been trained into an invisible.

But at this time, Qi He was kneeling on the ground, his face was sad, and he looked panicked.

It turned out that after the morning of this day, from the front line of Dingjiang water control, the memora issued by the director of the Ministry of Industry was delivered to him first according to the usual practice.

A small principal, the fold cannot be sent directly to the emperor. Either it is reviewed by the cabinet first, and then sent to the emperor for approval. Either it is to be handed over to his own chief official for inspection, and then the chief official will supplement and submit it to the emperor.

The chief was in the Ministry of Industry, so he naturally had to give the news of the death of the eldest prince by the water god to his chief official, on the one hand, to inform the news, and on the other hand, not to let the cabinet know about this major event first, so as not to be passive in front of the important ministers.

Let's say that Qi He received the fold at the beginning, and he didn't know what was going on, but the more he looked at it, the more frightened he became, and immediately bypassed the cabinet and came to the Dongji Palace to see the emperor in person.

He also knew that the matter was very serious, and it even involved Shinto, and if he followed the ritual procedures, he might rashly spread this terrifying news before the emperor set the tone, and I am afraid that it was not the situation that the emperor wanted to see.

"Lord Qi, the emperor has summoned you in. The eunuch stood still.

"Thank you, father-in-law. Qi Hezheng breathed a sigh of relief, stood up, and quietly stuffed a few pieces of silver into the herald eunuch while following the other party into the East Pole Palace.

Only after entering the East Pole Hall, Qi Hezheng knelt on the ground with a plop. "Your Majesty, the minister has something important to report. ”

"You are also an important minister of Sanpin, why do you kneel on the ground at every turn, isn't this my mistreatment of you. The Emperor frowned.

"The minister was afraid, and the minister wanted to report the matter, but he didn't dare to mention it without kneeling. "Of course Qi Hezheng knows that the emperor doesn't like this, but a prince is dead, and he still dares to stand as a subordinate, does he still want to gain a good foothold in the court in the future?

"Get up, report now what you have done. The Emperor shook his head and said.

"This, the minister dared to ask the emperor to retreat from irrelevant people. Qi Hezheng heard the emperor's order, and instead of standing up, he kowtowed again.

"Bold, how can the emperor lack attendants around him?" Before the emperor could speak, the big eunuch beside him said in a loud voice. This great eunuch is also a celebrant eunuch, and he was also on duty beside the emperor in the early dynasties, so of course he has the right to speak at this time.

When he heard that the Ministry of Industry was going to retire from the irrelevant people around the emperor, he was not happy, and he relied on his responsibility as a celebrant to reprimand the emperor.

The Ministry of Works, Shangshu Qi and Zheng, did not refute, still kneeling on the ground and touching the ground with his head.

"Well, you stay, and tell the others to withdraw for the time being. The emperor also felt that the situation was wrong at this time, so he did not pursue Qi Hezheng's faux pas, and ordered the big eunuch beside him.

After a while, there were only three people left in the East Pole Palace: the emperor, the Ministry of Works, Shang Shuqi and Zheng, and the eunuch of the ceremony.

"Your Majesty, this is the information that the subordinate received from the front line of water control in Dingjiang today. There were not many outsiders in the hall, so Qi Hezheng handed a book out of his arms.

Without orders, the great eunuch took the fold and presented it to the emperor.

The latter opened the thin fold, first looked at it at a glance and ten lines, and then saw the content of the description of the Dingjiang flood control camp being washed away by flooding, and his eyes slowed down.

Subsequently, this twist came to the fact that the eldest prince was kidnapped and killed by the Dingjiang Water God, and after the emperor saw it, his face suddenly turned pale, and he calmed down to read the twist, and finally angrily threw it to the ground in front of him.

This action frightened the big eunuch around him to kneel on the ground hurriedly, and even Qi Hezheng on the ground in the distance trembled.

"It's really unreasonable! It's too much to deceive people!" The emperor stood up suddenly, his voice revealing emotions that could not be hidden, and said in a trembling voice: "Call the cabinet elder Gu Changshan and my Seventh Prince to come to the East Pole Hall to discuss matters. ”