Chapter XXII: The Court Debate
I don't know if the female emperor can appear, but a eldest princess supervising state affairs, commonly known as the eldest princess of the prison country, will appear soon, at this time, the imperial minister who went down just now returned to the emperor's side, and unfolded a volume of holy decree in his hand and read aloud: Carried by heaven and earth, the glory of the sun and the moon, the emperor's edict said; For more exciting novels, please visit
When the imperial minister finished reading the holy decree, Cheng Xiuyi, who was standing on the side, squatted slightly to his father and the queen standing on the side, raised his right hand and raised his slightly half-clenched fist to his ear and lightly clicked three times, which can be regarded as the end of the salute, because the eldest princess has the privilege of this, and she does not need to kneel and kowtow when she sees the emperor.
Just when Cheng Xiuyi was about to take over the holy decree, Dazaizhi, who was standing at the head of the hundred officials, suddenly walked out and knelt down and said: Your Majesty has a book.
Cheng Mingci frowned and asked in a deep voice: Aiqing, today is the day when the eldest princess returns to the palace, so let's wait for this chapter to be played again tomorrow morning.
Now Cheng Mingci's Dazai is a veteran of the three dynasties, in Cheng Mingci's grandfather when he was in power, Shangjingcheng, Chuzhou Governor, Xiazhou Governor, Commercial Minister, Internal Guard, born in Yuanzhou Chu, folk have such two folk songs, ten officials and nine surnames Chu, all out of Yuanzhou, this is an exaggeration, because the Xia Yuan Empire has ten nobles, Yuanzhou Chu, Chuzhou Liu, Fengzhou Mei, Jiangzhou Gong, Gao, Huzhou Tian, Qi, Bai, Huazhou Yao, Xiangzhou Shangguan, but this Dazai because of his own outstanding ability, and is a nobleman, so he served as the imperial Dazai in the era of Cheng Mingci's father。
These ten nobles and the royal family Cheng are in charge of the court of the entire Xia Yuan Empire, which has historical reasons, because the ten surnames themselves have a very great influence in the local area, and in the unification war of the empire, their family owners have made a very great contribution to the empire, in order to reward many of their descendants have entered the court as officials, and among the top ten surnames, the four surnames of Chu, Mei and Shangguan and the Gao of the Shiju generals are the most officials, and among the four surnames, Yuanzhou Chu is the most official among them, and the position is the most important, so there is such a folk song。
This Dazai's surname is Chu Mingkai, the word Boyang, even the emperor has to be honored with the title of Chu Xiang, Cheng Mingci's father once jokingly said: There is an old Chu in the court, as if there is a treasure.
Chu Boyang is out now, the emperor is like a mirror in his heart, he knows that if he just crowns the eldest daughter as the eldest princess, then no one will object, but the position of supervising state affairs is too important, this is dividing the rights of the great ruler, because from the founding of the Xia Yuan Empire to the present, there has always been a balance between the imperial power and the power of the great ruler, and a country with such a large territory and such a large population is not realistic for the emperor to manage alone, so this relationship between the monarch and the minister is maintained.
Originally, it was already an established fact that the emperor wanted to issue a holy decree, but he didn't expect this Dazai to come out to oppose it, but he couldn't help but let people speak, which shows how far the imperial power has declined.
Dazai Zhi said loudly: Your Majesty's ministers ask for a review of the matter of the eldest princess serving as the supervisor of state affairs.
The eldest princess has been away from the court for more than 20 years, and the ministers only knew that the eldest princess went to Sanqing Mountain to join the two masters of the arts, and the ministers did not know how the eldest princess learned art, even if the eldest princess was successful in learning and art, but supervising state affairs is not an ordinary position, when His Majesty went on patrol or His Majesty was a hundred years later, the prince was young when he supervised state affairs had the right to deal with the government and assist the young lord in governing the country, and now His Majesty is in full bloom, and as far as the minister knows, His Majesty has received the life blessing of the Elf Empire, and has a long life?
After Dazai Zhi finished speaking, many ministers nodded secretly, because they thought that what Dazai said made sense, Cheng Mingci frowned after listening, the reason why he named his eldest daughter as the eldest princess to supervise state affairs was to share the rights of Dazai, because the current queen is from the Yuanzhou Chu clan, and the prince is too cowardly, and now the state affairs are getting hard, and then there is a border pass to report the northern beast demon clan can be said to be ready to move, although he and the eldest daughter have not met for more than 20 years, but he can be said to know everything about the eldest daughter's learning in Sanqing Mountain, and he hopes that his eldest daughter can help him to govern this already devastated empire, but he couldn't say these words openly.
Just when the emperor wanted to refute, Cheng Xiuyi, who was standing beside him, smiled slightly, as if the winter snow met the early sun, and the entire hall seemed to become sunny, Cheng Xiuyi said: Dazai Zhi is worthy of being the elder of the three dynasties, and what he said is indeed a wise saying, but I want to ask Dazaizhi, how is the situation of the empire now?
Dazai said embarrassedly: The empire is still peaceful in the sea now, right?
After listening to this, Cheng Xiuyi sneered: It can be regarded as a domestic level, in my opinion, it is internal and external troubles.
Dazai retorted: I don't know why Her Royal Highness the princess said this.
Cheng Xiuyi said: Let me ask you, how many people are in my country?
Dazai replied without hesitation: 830 million.
Cheng Xiuyi then asked: How much does the empire earn?
Dazai Zhi then replied: Lu Qianwu Bai 10,000 taels of blue silver.
Cheng Xiuyi said with a smile: Dazai Zhi is worthy of being an old minister of the Three Dynasties, an imperial meritorious service, and he remembers the empire's annual income very clearly, let's not talk about whether there is water in these years, even if the empire really has these annual incomes now, the little woman wants to ask the empire that the average person only pays less than eighty copper coins a year for the empire, hehe, the empire's taxes are really low and pitiful, so the people of the empire should live a very good life with such low taxes? But what about the facts? The fact is that the people of some states and counties in the empire are already on the verge of being eaten by their sons, don't you feel ashamed to be the ruler of the empire? Shouldn't you hang yourself to thank the world?
After listening to this, Dazai's face turned red with anger, and he pointed at Cheng Xiuyi and said loudly: Nonsense, nonsense, how can the life of the empire be so unbearable as you said?
Cheng Xiuyi looked at Dazai Zhi with a sneer and said: Even if I talk nonsense, then let me ask you again, how many years have you been on the throne of Dazaizhi?
Dazai Zhi listened a little inexplicably, he thought to himself, this princess's thinking is too jumpy, just now I was still discussing how much the empire earns a year, why is it that now I am starting to ask me how long I have been on the throne of Dazai?
However, he still replied without hesitation: From the twenty-third year of the first emperor Yongjia to the present, it has been sixteen spring and autumn.
Cheng Xiuyi smiled and then asked: Then may I ask how many large and small uprisings in the empire have been there since you took charge of the court?
Cheng Xiuyi was speechless when he asked this Dazai, a veteran of the Three Dynasties who had been an official for decades, because since he was in power, there have been more than ten uprisings, almost every year, which is the biggest criticism of his government, but because of the huge influence of the Chu clan in the court and various relationships with other ethnic groups, Chu Boyang has always been standing, but now he was said by the princess on the spot in front of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs, the veteran of the Three Dynasties was full of shame, his face was flushed, and he fell to the ground with a sigh.
When the court Dazai and Her Royal Highness the princess debated, he fainted on the spot, which frightened the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, and even Cheng Mingci shouted loudly: Imperial Doctor, come here, quickly pass on the Imperial Doctor to diagnose and treat Dazai.
Just when everyone was in chaos and surrounded Dazaizhi, Cheng Xiuyi walked quickly from the top of the imperial stairs to the periphery of everyone, and then shouted: "Get out of the way, do you want him to be suffocated to death by surrounding him like this?"
When everyone heard this, they quickly dodged away, Cheng Xiuyi came to Dazaizhi's side, at this time, there were several of his sons and nephews beside Dazaizhi, they looked at Cheng Xiuyi vigilantly, Cheng Xiuyi glanced at them and then squatted down, stretched out his hand and pressed it on the vein of Dazaizhi's left hand, and after a while, he took out a white porcelain vial from his body and then opened it and took out a snow-white pill with a strange aroma from it, and then said to these people: Dazai Zhi is too old, and he usually worries more about state affairs, and my debate with him is only for the country and does not involve personal grievances, I have a snow pill made by the immeasurable sect here, and after eating it, Dazai Zhi can wake up, and be able to open up his stagnant meridians, which is very good for him, but it's up to you to decide whether to let him eat it or not.
After finishing speaking, she handed over this snow pill to one of them, these people looked at this snow pill one by one, and didn't know whether they should feed him or not, feed it, they were afraid that the princess would harm her uncle for what she had just done, don't feed it, if this is really a life-saving medicine, because of their hesitation and delay the uncle's illness, it is not something they can afford, just when these people were in a dilemma, a young man snatched the snow pill from the hand of the person just now, and then sent this snow pill into the mouth of Dazaizhi, everyone saw that this person accused him one after another, and one of them whispered: Chu Tianqi, what the hell are you doing, what if this pill is poisonous, you are a little master of ceremonies and you are not a child of your own family, how can you be so childish?
The young man named Chu Tianqi looked at these Chu family disciples around him and sneered: You guys hesitate to do things, and when you are done, my uncle will have already returned to the West, and now in the court, my uncle is angry with the princess's words, if the pill she gave us is poisonous, then all the scholars in the world will accuse Her Royal Highness the princess of being a narrow-minded and vicious person, and at that time, even if Your Majesty favors her, it will be difficult to block the mouth of the world, and besides, I carefully observed the princess's half salary in the main hall, Her Royal Highness the princess is a very generous woman, although he and his uncle are-for-tat and even fierce, But what she said is the current situation of the empire today, these are facts, and selfless, although these things can't be completely blamed on the uncle, but as the elder of the three dynasties, the uncle of the dynasty is responsible for the unshirkable responsibility, and then the princess is from the immeasurable, under the two major sects of Zen Buddhism, how can such a noble bloodline as an elf do such a dirty thing? Therefore, this snow pill will definitely be able to save my uncle, on the contrary, if you hesitate like this, you will kill your uncle, if my uncle has any mistakes, I am willing to pay with my own life