Chapter 1380: Song of the Three Kings
Counting up, Du Qi was the first among the courtiers to know Lin Si.
After all, when they just left Rongcheng, Lin Si and Mu Zheping met in Du Qi's convoy.
Du Qi, who was the governor of the province back then, was about to return to Xiancheng to report on his work, and he was also sending his daughter Du Rong to go to school in the city of school parks.
Now his daughter Du Rong has also married last year, which can be regarded as a home, and he has already become one of the giants among the courtiers of the Moon Kingdom.
When Lin Si defeated the Southern Qi people and took the northern fiefdom, Du Qi was one of the right-hand men sent by Yueshan to Lin Si to manage the fief.
Among so many Wenchen, Lin Si has no people who are particularly close to him, if he really wants to count, Du Qi is probably the only one. When Du Rong got married, although Lin Si himself did not attend because he was busy, he still deliberately sent gifts, which can be called the only one among so many ministers.
Lin Si didn't deal with Du Qi much, but his impression was not bad.
The person who can propose tax reform, in his opinion, is of course the pillar of the Moon Kingdom, and the northern fiefdom was also well organized by him and Yang Yu, which shows his ability.
In addition, Lin Si still remembered Lao Mu's evaluation after he planned to assassinate Du Qi and was exposed by himself.
Lao Mu said that this person is a good official, and there is nothing wrong with his personal style. Of course, Lin Si remembered his judgment.
Maybe it's because Lao Mu hasn't returned yet, Lin Si always has a little special feeling every time he sees Du Qi.
He didn't deliberately hide anything from this trip, after all, this is not something unseemly.
However, his appearance in Du Qi's mansion still surprised the servants and guards in the mansion. As far as they knew, His Royal Highness never seemed to have visited a minister alone since the Queen ascended the throne.
And soon, Lin Si soon met with Du Qi and got to the point.
"Why did the courtiers get to this point?" Without too many greetings, Lin Si went straight to the point.
"This ...... The accusations that the ministers have accused each other of not always being true. ”
"I know it's not all true, but some of it is true, right?"
"Definitely. ”
"Why is this happening? I don't understand, Shangshu Ling Mi Yangcheng, I have heard of his reputation for incorruptibility when my father was in power. And the day before yesterday, he was impeached for the crime of embezzling ink taxes! When Shang Shu was an official of the fiefdom in the north, I had heard how diligent he was, and I remember that he was once busy with his work and did not even return home for three days and two night......s in a row.
Yes, Lin Si was indeed extremely puzzled.
Many powerful ministers and Qing officials in his eyes have now become like this, and he feels extremely unacceptable.
Maybe these charges are framed, or they may be deliberately exaggerated, but he knows very well that since they will be provoked in this regard, it means that they are at least not afraid of shadows as before.
Du Qi couldn't answer this question at all.
What can he say? Yes, people change, just look at it...... Wouldn't that tell Lin Si that these people are really guilty? So what's the difference between him and making a 'small report'?
Du Qi did not dare to guarantee these people without authorization, and if these people were really found to be guilty of any crime in the future, he would be guilty of covering up.
So, he could only be silent.
Lin Si hoped that he could say something, give himself a little insight and opinion, but he couldn't wait for anything.
Gradually, his eyes also dimmed, and he understood Du Qi's distress.
"When I followed Sister Wang to study the history of various countries, she once told me that when fighting the world, everyone bowed and did their best to deny themselves and serve the public, and after the country was stable, people's hearts began to change and began to fall, and she asked me to take this as a warning in the future!
Because the Moon Kingdom is now strong, no one dares to provoke it, and everyone is relieved, and then they feel that they are all the founding heroes of the country, the new Moon Country giants, and now it's time to enjoy it?
Du Qi suddenly discovered that His Royal Highness the Prince, who didn't have much intersection with him on weekdays and looked like a political idiot, didn't understand anything and couldn't see through anything.
That's right, he was all right, most of the courtiers of the Moon Kingdom are thinking like this now......
Now it is past the era when everyone worked hard and everyone was strict with themselves. At that time, if everyone is not united and wholeheartedly, the northern fiefdom and the Moon Kingdom may fall.
At that time, they were full of energy. Watching the fiefdom become prosperous day by day, the people are getting better day by day, and the Moon Kingdom is recovering the lost territory little by little, they are full of a sense of accomplishment.
However, as Lin Si said, after the Moon Kingdom became more and more powerful, new interests, a large number of benefits that were unimaginable before, also appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
In the past, when the prime minister of the Yue Kingdom went to the Bilan Shenyan Empire, I am afraid that even the foreign ministers of the two countries did not bother to meet them in person. And now the status of the Prime Minister of the Moon Kingdom on the mainland is no longer inferior to the Prime Minister of Bilan. Now it is some remote and small countries that are afraid that the Yue Kingdom will attack them, so they have sent envoys to give gifts and make friends.
Such a change came too quickly and too suddenly. It's like a rich man in a remote countryside who suddenly became the president of the top ten super chambers of commerce in the mainland......
New aristocrats, new wealthy families have sprung up, and they are gradually carried away.
If you don't fight yourself, others will fight too. I try to do things impartially, and I am ridiculed as pedantic and stupid, and others rely on the camp to get practical benefits, why?
At this time, Du Qi seemed to have a thousand words to say, but in the end, he could only sigh and continue to choose silence.
"Master Du, I hope you can tell me the truth, Your Majesty, does she have any unspeakable secrets? She has taught me herself, how can she not see the problem herself? Why doesn't she turn a blind eye? I don't believe that she is willing to watch the Moon Kingdom become corrupt step by step, so what's the point of us fighting the world, I'm afraid it won't take a few years to be defeated!"
Du Qi raised his head when he heard this, and in addition to helplessness in his eyes, he hesitated.
"Your Majesty...... She had also tried to correct these problems, but she ......"
"Just what?"
"Your Highness, do you know that now Princess Suning is also a royal order, and she can also participate in political affairs?"
"I know, is the problem from her? But I've heard that Princess Suning is just a name, and almost never pays attention to government affairs. ”
"That's true. Du Qi took a deep breath and seemed to have made up some kind of determination: "Then let me ask Your Highness again, don't you think it's strange that the two factions in the court are fighting?"
"What's strange? Why did they form two factions? It's not surprising that there are contradictions between foreign courtiers and local courtiers? ”
"His Royal Highness is the key to the point, the position of the general of the Three Dukes and Shangshu Ling, there are no people from the Southern Qi of Qianlan, Qingchuan, and Southern Qi, although they have a large number of people in the court, they are still completely inferior. But now, they can compete with Lord Yang Mi, isn't that amazing?"
Du Qi has already seen that Lin Si does know a lot of things, and he is not a political idiot, and he can even be considered smart in this regard.
But unfortunately, perhaps because Zhi is not here, he is usually indifferent to these things at all, and he knows too few things. Maybe a lot of words, no one reaches his ears on weekdays.
Lin Si was stunned when he heard this, and immediately reacted.
"You're right, you're ......"
That's right, what's the use of having a lot of people? The biggest positions are all on the other side, and the foreign courtiers are actually still not qualified to fight with the local courtiers of the Moon Country, why are they so confident?
"Why is this happening?
Although Du Qi had already mentioned Hua Susu just now, he didn't associate her with this aspect at all. In his mind, Hua Susu is harmless to humans and animals, and a gentle and kind poor person......
He even frowned and thought about it, could it be that there was a new big man in the Moon Country? King Qianlan, King Qingchuan, but it shouldn't be, how could they make waves?
If they were going to make something happen, Yue Luoning should have told herself a long time ago, then she would let them never recover.
Just looking at his face, Du Qi knew what he was thinking.
It seems that His Royal Highness knows too little and too little......
"Your Highness, have you ever heard a ballad that is spread among the people of Xiancheng?"
"What ballad?"
Du Qi opened his mouth, as if it was difficult to speak. But after thinking about it again, the words have come to this point, and the ballads have already begun to circulate among the people, Lin Si will hear them sooner or later, so what's the point of telling him?
"This ballad, known as the Song of the Three Kings, is impossible to find out who first came out......
"Three kings, which three kings?" Lin Si seemed to be in high spirits.
Three kings? He thought of the surrendered kings of the three kingdoms of Qianlan, Qingchuan, and Southern Qi again, could it be that these people were restless?
"There is a king in the palace, **** sits in the court. A king in the palace, a bride every night. There is a king outside the palace, and he fights the frontier every year. Three Kings ......"
"Okay!" Lin Si, who was still smiling, suddenly raised his hand to stop him.
Lin Si was not a person who was easily swayed by emotions, let alone angered others, but at this time, he was already pale.
He knew very well that the king who fought on the frontier every year was talking about himself.
"A king in the palace, who is it referring to......" he gritted his teeth, and his voice almost squeezed out from between his teeth.
In the court of the Moon Kingdom, there is actually no harem concubine battle at all, is it?
Because Yue Luoning is the queen, she has long since broken off the idea of marriage, so there are no harem beauties at all.
In addition to the palace maids and eunuchs and guards, there are only two people in this harem, one is the Empress Dowager Feng, and the other is his sister Su......
"Princess Suning. ”
Du Qi's answer almost made Lin Si's eyes pop up with Venus.