Surprisingly, the empress did not mention Hua Luo's serious crime of mutilating her siblings and usurping power in her holy decree, but only said that Hua Luo, as the crown prince, was impetuous, had no words and deeds, and needed to be experienced, so she let Hua Luo go to the quarry for a month to do hard labor next month.

The person who read the decree left, and Zhan Xing was speechless: "Your Majesty is too ruthless, Luo Dian, you are such a delicate girl, you actually want to go to the quarry like a big man to do hard labor." ”

Hua Luo got up from the ground: "I don't care, just go, I'll go, I'll write an excerpt." ”

Zhao Yue looked puzzled behind him: "What kind of excerpt does Luo Dian want to write, why are you in such a hurry?" ”

Zhanxing shrugged: "I don't know." ”

The next day, Hua Luo finished washing early and went to the court.

The courtiers outside the hall held the fluorene board, lined up in two teams according to their official positions and waited for the court, and saluted when they saw Hua Luo coming.

Hua Luo didn't squint, and when she met an official position, she mumbled in response, and her attitude was very indifferent.

It wasn't until he met Xia Houqian that he stopped.

"Your Highness." Xiahou Qian took the initiative to salute Hua Luo.

Hua Luo stood beside Xia Hou Qian, because Xia Hou Qian was originally Hua Luo's direct subordinate, and he was also a confidant and minister, and it was not strange that other ministers were close to him.

"Xiahou, your face is very bad, didn't you rest well last night?" Hua Luo asked in that casual tone.

"Thank you Your Highness for your concern, the doctor said that Qiaonu is weak and boneless, it is not easy to give birth, in the early stages of pregnancy, because I didn't know that I was pregnant, I touched something cold and hurt the fetus, now I must take care of it, be careful in everything, last night I had a sudden pain, and the minister was busy asking the doctor, so I rested late."

"Your wife is weak and has a first-time child, but I didn't expect it to be so tricky." Hua Luo suggested, "Then if the meeting is dispersed and the early dynasty is over, I will ask Zhaoyue to invite a royal physician in the palace to live in your house for a period of time, take care of the Qiaonu birth, and also have multiple guarantees." ”

"Don't bother Your Highness, the minister has already asked a doctor to take care of it, and His Majesty has also been ill recently, if His Royal Highness invites the royal physician away, let Your Majesty know that there may be trouble."

"Alright then, just watch out for yourselves."

Hearing the bell of the hall ring three times, they tacitly agreed that they did not speak again, and Hua Luo walked in front and entered the hall with the ministers.

No one knew that Zhan Xing and Zhao Yue sneaked out of the East Palace, ran to the side hall of the main hall, and peeked through the gap in the side hall, and could vaguely glimpse the scene in the court.

Zhao Yue said nervously: "What are you doing, sister, you pulled me to peep at the court, what would happen if I was discovered." ”

Zhan Xing looked through the gap hard: "What are you afraid of, let's just watch for a while and leave, aren't you curious about what kind of excerpts Luo Dian played, making it mysterious." ”

Zhao Yue glanced at her sister and thought that she must be crazy to be so bold in order to satisfy her curiosity.

Hearing the announcement of the words "Youben Qilu", Zhan Xing put his finger to his mouth and made a booing motion, signaling that the early dynasty had officially begun, and Zhaoyue should not make any more sounds.

Zhaoyue was immediately silent, for fear of being discovered.

As soon as the empress came, she brought up the recital that Hua Luo handed over yesterday: "Ladies and gentlemen, the prince proposed to remove the ugly tax yesterday. ”

As soon as the empress's words fell, the ministers were all surprised, and they were talking in a low voice.

The Empress continued, "The stakes are high, and I have decided to consult with all of you Aiqing to see if we really want to remove the ugly man's tax. ”

After speaking, the empress looked at Hua Luo.

"Prince, since you proposed the removal of the ugly man's tax, it is up to you to start talking about why you are recalled."

Zhan Xing and Zhao Yue, who were eavesdropping on the side, looked at each other, it turned out that Hua Luo wrote the excerpt to propose the recall of the ugly man's tax, but how could Hua Luo, who was so good, have such an idea?

The ugly tax has always been one of the main sources of revenue for the treasury of the Apocalypse, and if it is said to be recalled, it will be recalled, can those old and old-fashioned ministers agree.

"Yes." Hua Luo said slowly: "For a long time, my country has respected beauty and humbled ugliness, beauties are naturally superior, and ugly people can't help no matter how hard they try. ”

"The phenomenon of worshipping the United States and stepping on the ugly can be seen everywhere in China, and the ugly tax has pushed the difference between the beautiful and the ugly to the extreme. But everyone forgets, there is an old saying that the heart is beautiful, the beauty is not necessarily kind-hearted, and the ugly person is not necessarily ugly, in recent years, the beauty is sought after by people and the example of virtue is not worthy of the place abounds, and the ugly person is unfairly treated because of the ugliness is not uncommon. ”

"The following is just an example recently collected by the sons, in some places of the people, if a family gives birth to a beautiful, white and pleasing baby, it is a great joy, to celebrate with a feast, but if it gives birth to an ugly or even birthmarked baby, it is a great misfortune."

"In order to avoid paying ugly taxes, parents have become the norm for drowning, infanticide, and abandonment of babies, and repeated prohibitions, this behavior violates morality, and the birthmarks on the baby's face rarely follow the baby for a lifetime, often at the age of two or three, and the baby who is born is not good-looking only because of a slight stunt in the mother's body."

"But the parents of the children often do not hesitate to abandon the babies because they cannot afford the high ugly taxes, so that they lose the right to live in this world as soon as they are born."

Hua Luo said freely, and the empress listened expressionlessly.

"Dongcheng salt girl, beautiful and kind-hearted, her parents died early, and she has been sending people under the fence at her brother and sister-in-law's house, just because she accidentally burned her face while doing farm work, and her treatment has been very different since then, because she can't afford the high ugly tax, her brother and sister-in-law swept her out."

"But the salt girl did not give up on herself, but worked on her own door every day, in order to cover her ugliness when she went out wearing a veil, one day when she was doing good deeds on the street, she was accidentally removed by a beggar, and because she showed her ugly and hideous face, she was disgusted by the surrounding neighbors, and was beaten to death, but most of these neighbors had received the grace of the salt girl in the past, and everyone was not ashamed of such a paralyzing human thing."

"Erchen believes that it is because the enemy tax promulgated by the Kingdom of the Apocalypse has fueled such a trend, making everyone think that ugly people are not worthy of living in this world, and they will only become a burden to their families."

Hua Luo didn't seem to hear the courtiers' arguments getting more and more intense, and after giving examples, she began to express her opinions, which were catchy.

"People's appearance is innate, and everyone will grow old sooner or later, no matter how beautiful they are when they are young, there will always be an old and ugly day, if everyone has to decide whether to pay taxes according to their appearance, then everyone present will have to bear the ugly tax when their hair is gray and wrinkled, and experience the pain that those ugly people have endured?"

Zhan Xing and Zhao Yue, who were eavesdropping on the side, discussed in a low voice: "Ah Luo has only been back for a day, where did she find so many things?" I think it makes sense. ”