The Son of Heaven opened the third year of the new century, winter and December.

More than 70 days have passed since Liu Qi 'thought' about closing the Taimiao.

But the Son of Heaven, who should have 'thought' about half a month, has not yet walked out of the Taimiao.

Liu Qi was busy with self-isolation, and the burden of government was all on the shoulders of Prime Minister Shen Tujia.

At this moment: Shen Tujia, who worked for a day and two nights in a row, and finally couldn't resist the tiredness, sat safely at the head of the Xiangfu class under the persuasion of students Liu Pengzu and Liu Sheng;

But rest is rest, Shen Tujia didn't dare to fall asleep, so he could only lie down on the top, gently rub the corners of his forehead with his hands, close his eyes and pretend to sleep, while not forgetting to listen to the reports of Liu Pengzu and Liu Sheng.

"Teacher;"

"Hengshan came to report: After the hailstorm, there was a plague outbreak in three counties."

"Although it has been controlled by the local county, it is in urgent need of the court to allocate doctors and medicine stones."

Hearing Liu Sheng's report, Shen Tujia didn't raise his head, and his eyes were still closed;

He replied tiredly: "Send the report to Changle Palace, ask the Queen Mother to use the seal, and then take the stamped report to Shaofu, and let Shaofu allocate medicines." ”

"As for the healer, let the officials of the local county and county find it near Hengshan by themselves;"

"The expenses of those who seek medical treatment shall be allocated by the state treasury - the limit of 5,000 yuan per doctor, and the total number of doctors shall be limited to 100 and 500,000 yuan."

Hearing this, Liu Sheng only nodded slightly, then handed the newspaper in his hand to the little official on the side, and watched the little official take the report and trot towards the outside of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

When the little official was far away, Liu Pengzu's report sounded again in the class room.

"Teacher;"

"Guanzhong Chenzhi County reported that the canal was blocked and needed to be dredged before the start of spring ploughing, and applied for funding from the state treasury."

"—stay in the middle and don't send it."

This time, Shen Tujia only dropped these four words, and then frowned tightly.

After that, the brothers Liu Sheng and Liu Pengzu each read out several similar appropriations and labor applications, and they also received the same approval from Shen Tujia.

In the end, Shen Tujia finally opened his eyes slightly, let out a wry smile with a tired face, and stretched out his hand again, pointing to the stove in front of him.

"All the music that stays in the middle and doesn't make it, the two sons, can be thrown directly into the furnace;"

"After all, the meaning of the existence of those sorceries is limited to that······"

After saying that, Shen Tujia straightened up, picked up the tea soup in front of him and poured it vigorously, then returned to his previous posture again, lying on the top, closing his eyes and pretending to sleep.

In front of Shen Tujia, the brothers Liu Pengzu and Liu Sheng looked at each other slightly, and then stood up tacitly;

Picked up the half-human-tall bamboo slip beside him and came to the stove in front of Shen Tujia.

While throwing the bamboo slips in their hands into the stove, the two brothers did not forget to chat.

"These people are really."

"—I don't look at the moment when this is;"

"I also dig ditches and build roads one by one, and I am reaching out for money and people."

"That is, the father is not there, and the teacher has a good temper."

"If my father sees these notes, he will definitely summon these people to Chang'an and scold them in person······"

Hearing Liu Pengzu's slightly resentful complaints, Liu Sheng shook his head with a smile.

After thinking about it for a while, he finally spoke: "I think it's nothing. ”

"Although at the moment, the people of the Kanto region are panicking and the undercurrent is surging, but for these counties and counties in Guanzhong, life still has to go on."

"The canal is related to farming and the irrigation of farmers; Roads, in turn, are related to traffic. ”

"——That is, the timing is not right at the moment, and it is inconvenient for the court to allocate funds and allocate people."

"In ordinary years, when such a recital is sent to my father, it should be approved."

"After all, my Han family is agriculture-oriented;"

"In the community, there is also a saying that 'the people take food as the sky'."

As he spoke, Liu Sheng did not forget to continue to throw rolls of bamboo slips into the stove in front of him;

While throwing it, he didn't forget to pretend to be relaxed and said: "But last year's autumn harvest seems to be lower than in previous years." ”

"In addition, in winter, most of the requests for unclogging the canals have not been approved by the teachers;"

"——This year, after the autumn harvest, I am afraid that the life of the people in Guanzhong will be even more difficult······"

was full of embarrassment, which also provoked Liu Pengzu to nod slowly;

After chatting for a few more words, the two brothers shook their heads and sighed and stopped talking, concentrating on burning the various places that 'stayed in the middle and did not send it'.

Since the Son of Heaven punished himself for reflection in Taimiao, Prime Minister Shen Tujia has hardly left the Prime Minister's Mansion.

For more than 70 days, more than two months, the number of times Shen Tujia returned to his home to rest was no more than five fingers.

Almost every day, Shen Tujia fell asleep in a mountain of bamboo slips, and woke up just a few hours later, continued to consult the notes, and made a reply.

Shen Tujia, who is over 70 years old, works so hard, Liu Pengzu and Liu Sheng brothers can't bear it, so they come to visit Shen Tujia from time to time, and by the way, they persuade Shen Tujia to rest for a while and eat two bites of hot rice.

came to the Prime Minister's Mansion three or five times, and Shen Tujia simply arrested the two brothers and left them directly by his side.

The name is beautiful: learn and learn by the old man's side, how to deal with government affairs, and prepare for the future, after the king becomes a vassal domain.

The two brothers had no objection to Shen Tujia's proposal, and only readily agreed.

- What Liu Pengzu thought was that Shen Tujia was right

Anyway, the two brothers will also be crowned kings and vassals in the future;

There is nothing wrong with being by Shen Tujia's side in advance and learning how to handle state affairs.

Liu Sheng felt that in the name of 'learning to deal with state affairs', it was not bad to help Shen Tujia share the burden a little.

In this way, the two brothers and their teacher Shen Tujia stayed in the Prime Minister's Mansion and 'worked together' for more than two months.

With this period of study, the two brothers gradually became familiar with state affairs and the way they dealt with various things;

Especially by Shen Tujia's side, watching Shen Tujia handle those originally complicated things lightly, it made the two brothers learn a lot.

Of course, the two brothers are still princes after all, and their identities are taboo here;

said that it was to help, but Shen Tujia did not ask the two brothers to do anything specifically for themselves.

Most of the time, just like now, Shen Tujia closed his eyes and lay on his head, squinted his eyes to rest, and then asked the two brothers to read the content of the recital to themselves.

After Shen Tujia made an approval, he handed over the song to the officials of the Prime Minister for specific processing.

This model can be regarded as allowing Shen Tujia to realize the superiority of the profession of 'secretary' more than 2,000 years in advance.

As for the two secretaries Liu Pengzu and Liu Sheng, Shen Tujia is naturally very satisfied······

"It's almost~"

"I rested for half an hour, and I can't delay any longer."

"Rest any longer, I'm afraid that today's redundant government affairs will be more than yesterday······"

After saying a word leisurely, he saw Shen Tujia slowly open his eyes, take a deep breath, and pat the sides of his cheeks with both hands;

Still didn't feel that he had raised his spirits, so he picked up the tea bowl and poured it again, and then got up from his seat and came to the pile of bamboo slips sitting in front of the two brothers.

After looking left and right, he probably picked out a few bamboo slips that were obviously marked 'urgent', and Shen Tujia came to the side of the class room, knelt down in front of the desk, and then entered the state of work.

Seeing this, the two brothers had no choice but to look at each other and let out a wry smile, threw the remaining rolls of bamboo slips into the stove, and then returned to the pile of 'bamboo slips' and looked at them mechanically.

- Not for approval, but to classify these bamboo slips so that Shen Tujia can save some trouble.

But they were busy with their work, and the brothers did not forget to complain softly, so as to add a touch of fun to this boring work.

"Dredging the canal ~ Staying in the middle and not sending ~"

"Repair the road ~ stay in the middle and do not send ~~"

"Recruit the official ~ stay in the middle and do not send ~~~"

"Official Vacancies ······"

You read every word, I read it word by word, and when I read this note about the vacancy of county officials and the request for the recruitment of officials, the two brothers couldn't help but look at each other for a moment;

Then, the two brothers looked at each other and smiled, and took a deep breath at the same time······

"——Stay~Medium~No~Hair~~~~~"

A neat dragging sound immediately caused the three teachers and students to laugh heartily;

Only a moment later, I saw that Shen Tujia didn't seem to come up in one breath, and he coughed violently.

Hearing this rapid cough, the two brothers hurriedly got up and walked quickly to Shen Tujia's side.

On one side, Liu Pengzu caressed Shen Tujia's back, and on the other side, Liu Sheng jumped out two steps and took the bowl of tea soup that had been cooled.

As soon as he handed the tea bowl to Shen Tujia's side, there were two violent coughs, and he saw two traces of crimson erupting from Shen Tujia's mouth and nose, falling into the bowl······

"Teacher!"

Liu Sheng exclaimed, only causing Shen Tujia to shake his hand for a while, and the violent coughing sound lasted for a long time;

After coughing up for twenty or thirty more sounds, Shen Tu Jia finally relented, and quickly wiped the blood between his mouth and nose with his palm.

"It's okay······"

"Ahem, ahem!"

"It's okay, it's okay······"

Feeling the worried eyes of Liu Pengzu and Liu Sheng, Shen Tujia waved his hand calmly;

Taking a deep breath and adjusting his chaotic snort a little, he forced out a smile and shook his head at the two brothers.

"Whew~"

"I've had an old problem for many years~"

"Not only me, but all the veterans who fought on the front line in the early years have one or another root cause."

"—I was only thinking about the battle, and I didn't care about healing;"

"Nowadays, I can only resist like this, and from time to time, supplemented by decoction to recuperate······"

As soon as he spoke, Liu Sheng quickly walked out of the class room, brought in a bowl of hot soup medicine sent by the servant, and knelt down lightly beside Shen Tujia.

After Shen Tujia took the tea bowl, drank it carefully, and coughed lightly twice, Liu Sheng's face finally appeared with a burst of sighs.

"Father's entry into the Taimiao, so far, almost two and a half months have passed;"

"Without my father sitting in Weiyang Palace, the burden of the court is all on the shoulders of the teacher."

"-If this goes on for a long time, it's not a way after all······"

As he spoke, Liu Sheng did not forget to work in his hands, and he took a handkerchief and stroked Shen Tujia's back lightly, so that the old man who was over seventy years old could be smooth.

Hearing Liu Sheng's words, Shen Tujia didn't react, but it made Liu Pengzu's face sink slightly.

In the past time, the Son of Heaven was really unlucky······

At the beginning, it was Jupiter and Mars retrograde, which made the Son of Heaven open a fifteen-day 'Taimiao Face Wall Reflection Experience Coupon'.

At that time, everyone thought that no matter how much Tianziqi likes to face the wall, it is unlikely that he will be addicted;

After using up the fifteen-day experience ticket, Tianzi Qi will inevitably come out of the Taimiao and return to Weiyang Palace to preside over the overall situation.

But what everyone, even Tianzi Qi himself, didn't expect was that the fifteen-day experience tickets were one after another······

——On the eleventh day when the Son of Heaven arrived at the wall of the Taimiao, the official in charge of stargazing recited: a comet appeared in the sky;

After Tianzi Qi shook his head helplessly, and then fulfilled the second experience ticket, on the twenty-seventh day of Tianzi Qi's face of the Wall Taimiao, the stargazer announced again: There was a solar eclipse during the day.

In desperation, Tianziqi could only breathe and renew a thirty-day experience coupon for himself.

I thought that this time I would be able to end on the 60th day, but in the early morning of the 59th day, another meteor crossed the west at an inopportune time······

Tianzi Qi, who was helpless, could only sigh in the end, and announced to the courtiers and officials who came to welcome him back to the palace: I, I haven't faced the wall enough······

Give me another fifteen days······

It was this successive 'visions of heaven' that made Tianzi Qi, who was only in his early thirties and should have presided over the overall situation of the court, but in the temple of Emperor Liu Xuan, he had a long vacation of more than two months!

On the contrary, Prime Minister Shen Tujia, who is over seventy years old and has long been dying, can only fight a handful of old bones and review the piles of notes.

Some people may say: Shentu Jialei, who handled the government on his behalf, wouldn't he be tired if he was replaced by the Son of Heaven?

- Not really!

Because there is a big difference between the Son of Heaven's instructions and the Prime Minister's 'reply on behalf of the Prime Minister'.

In the face of many misinterpretations, Tianzi Qi only needs to consider one question: approve or reject;

If you really can't make up your mind, you can also put it aside for the time being, go back and take some time, and find a courtier to discuss and discuss.

In other words: for the vast majority of government affairs that can be sent to him, Tianzi Qi has the absolute right to speak.

Approving, rejecting, or finding someone to discuss, it is up to the Son of Heaven to decide.

But these same things fell into the hands of Shen Tujia, but they suddenly became complicated.

Take Fang Cai, Liu Sheng's letter to Shentu Jianian as an example;

- The rain and hail in Hengshan caused a plague, and if this matter was in the hands of Tianziqi, there was no need for Tianziqi to think about it;

Pick up the seal of the Son of Heaven at hand, print it on the song, and then send it directly to Shaofu to allocate medicine.

But this matter was in the hands of Shen Tujia, and Shen Tujia, as the prime minister, could not directly order the allocation of materials to the Shaofu.

Because Shen Tujia is the prime minister;

The treasury is in the hands of the prime minister.

Since he has the treasury in his hands, Shen Tujia can no longer meddle in the internal affairs of the Shaofu, so as not to be suspected of 'attempting to abuse power'.

Therefore, Shen Tujia could only go around in a circle and send this recital to Changle Palace, so that Empress Dowager Dou could make an approval for the transfer of drugs from Shaofu for the Son of Heaven, and then use Empress Dowager Dou's approval to transfer materials from Shaofu.

This is all good, just need Shentu Jia to make a detour;

In the past two months or so, Shen Tujia has encountered many more complicated and difficult things than this matter.

But as the prime minister, Shen Tujia can only slow down his work efficiency to avoid committing taboos in some aspects······

"Alas~"

"I don't know if my father can come out of the temple smoothly this time;"

"But don't do anything else, let my father stay in the temple for a few more days, and let the teacher continue to work hard······"

Liu Pengzu sighed with embarrassment, which also caused Liu Sheng to nod worriedly;

But it also made Shen Tujia shake his head and smile bitterly.

Today is the thirteenth day of the fourth 'Taimiao Face Wall Experience Coupon' of the Son of Heaven, that is, the seventy-third day of the Son of Heaven's trip to the Taimiao.

According to the duration of this experience ticket: fifteen days, and after two days, Tianzi Qi will be able to walk out of the Taimiao.

- If, if nothing else······

"Prime Minister."

Just as the two brothers Liu Pengzu and Liu Sheng in the class room were worried about Shen Tujia's hard work during this time and Shen Tujia's physical condition, a low sound of recital sounded outside the class room;

When the person from the background walked into the class room and revealed the blue official uniform that belonged to the stargazing officer, the faces of the three teachers and students invariably swelled with a wry smile.

- The experience coupon of the Son of Heaven, I'm afraid, will be 'renewed' again······

"What is it this time?"

"Comet? Meteor? ”

"A solar eclipse? Lunar eclipse? ”

"Or which star is there that circulates in reverse???"

Seeing that familiar figure reappeared, Shen Tujia only shook his head with a wry smile and shook his head, and got up from his seat;

asked with a slight self-deprecation, but his footsteps had already come to the door of the class room.

Just waiting for the stargazer to open his mouth and tell the abnormal celestial phenomenon that happened this time, Shen Tujia will personally send the news of 'the successful renewal of the experience voucher' to the Taimiao as he did the previous times.

Unexpectedly, this time, the stargazer did not show a wry smile like the previous times;

Instead, with an extremely serious gaze, he bowed to Shen Tujia in front of him.

"The night before, a very long meteor appeared, streaked across the sky in the east!"

"This morning, news came from Luoyang Palace: a heavenly fire fell on the main hall of the East Palace of Luoyang Palace, burning down the palace walls and palace rooms!"

With a stern expression, he said these words, and saw that the stargazer bowed to Shen Tujia again, and his eyes quietly brought a little urging.

"Please also ask the Prime Minister to go to the Taimiao immediately, and ask Your Majesty to return to Weiyang Palace, the overall situation of sovereignty!"

"—Your Majesty can't continue to stay in the Taimiao no matter what!!"

(End of chapter)