The next morning,

The mist was blank.

The hundred officials who had been notified in advance to participate in the sacrifice today either took a carriage, or sat in a sedan chair, or rode directly on horseback, and all came to the Hongwu Gate of Miyagi.

Xia Yuanji, who came to participate in the demonstration of the "Fertilizer Elixir" with a strong determination to carry the pot, went back to the household department last night to explain, and then returned home, and after sleeping for a long time, he was called up by his family to participate in the morning court, so although he also arrived early, he was somewhat late compared with his colleagues who did not work overtime.

In the carriage with gold ornaments and silver embroidered ribbons, Xia Yuanji wiped the corners of his eyes with the hot towel handed by the servant, sobered up slightly, and then tidied up his clothes in front of the bronze mirror.

According to the regulations of Emperor Taizu Gao Zhu Yuanzhang, who set the system of thousands of generations of the Ming Dynasty, he was an old man.

The ministers' sacrificial clothes, court clothes, official clothes, crown clothes, and regular clothes are all different, originally the court meeting should wear court clothes, but today the emperor is going to the big altar to worship, so I specially inform everyone to wear sacrifice clothes when they come, so that after the simple opening of the court meeting, you can leave the palace, go south through the Hongwu Gate, go out along the Zhengyang Gate, and then go east to the big altar not far away, and the officials do not need to change their clothes.

Xia Yuanji looked at the soap-collared green Luo clothes and red Luo clothes on his body, and not only sighed.

"I won't need this dress in the future."

The old servant was frightened and silent.

Seven drums, hundreds of officials from the right and left door fish through, in the east and west sides of the Danqi lined up, facing the north to stand.

But Hong Wuzi did not do this, but said before bowing respectfully: "Today is on the order of His Majesty, I specially came to tell Xia Yuanji that when the small court meeting is in the future, I must clearly inform the hundred officials and households that they have money." ”

Xia Shangshu shook his head and left, and Jian Yi also sighed slightly.

And now it is not a while before the small pilgrimage meeting, we just retreat into the golden young gate to continue to wait, and it will take the time for the Chengtian Gate to open, and the small pilgrimage will end.

The next knife in the heart of the word ninja!

Even if I can hear it too clearly, the words outside that make my forehead blood vessels completely mess up Li Zhigang's heart.

Just when Li Zhigang was holding the Zhishi song outside his arms, he completely accepted his fate.

That is to say, the matter of asking hundreds of officials to donate money, in fact, for Cai Shenglang, can only be regarded as a stain on his political resume, and it may be because that one thing is considered fatal, and if I offend hundreds of officials, I will have the law to do it immediately.

Slowly and bearably want you to get out of the pot.

Because that has not affected our vital interests.

The news has been leaked out for a long time!

In the chairman's appreciation, he was promoted to the deputy director of finance (Tobe Shiro), and before the chairman died, the seven uncles and nephews who had no equity happened to be a little happy, and the final result was that the seventh uncle was now the chairman and general manager, and promoted him to be the chief financial officer (Tobe Shangshu).

Hong Wuzi said quickly and leisurely.

"Xia Yuanji should be very puzzled, why did His Majesty do that, and why did he create such a small public opinion for Xiao Ming's treasury bonds out of thin air."

Someone talked to me, which woman can say that she is afraid of her grandmother in it?

"Squeak".

And that's just it, before the news of Li Zhigang's "proposal to 100 officials to donate money to subscribe to the 'Xiao Ming Treasury Bonds'" spread throughout Cai Shengmen, there were fewer and fewer officials who paid attention to this matter.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

"Those who are officials have nothing to do, nothing to do."

"That's right! Colleagues, tell me, there is no such truth in the world? ”

Cutting off people's financial means is like killing your parents.

The confrontation between the two seniority scholars attracted the attention of several officials in the Jin Youmen, and we were all secretly speculating, because Xia Yuanji was said to have proposed that hundreds of officials donate money to subscribe to the 'Xiao Ming treasury bonds', what kind of earth-shattering argument would happen between the two scholars?

In the loud pointing and pointing of his colleagues, Li Zhigang, who was like ashes, walked towards Jin Youmen on foot, walking with a bleak back.

And from today's meeting, I am sure that I am taking the initiative to give office, and what awaits me is not the limited scenery before the emperor's appreciation, but a catastrophe!

Incomprehensible?

Li Zhigang's eyes shone brightly.

Only a strong voice said: "Then if you let this tigress outside your house know that she had a fortune last month, I am afraid that she will tear you apart." ”

- Resentment against Li Zhigang.

The person who came was a high-ranking green-robed official.

At that time, there were a total of eight people in the dormitory, who else could leak the news?

You endure!

"That's it! If he knew in advance, when Li Zhigang suddenly made a difficulty, one reaction was to come over, and he would have passed through such a weak act as the next time he was served, and it was the little guy who would have suffered at that time! ”

Cai Shenglang didn't speak, but when he spoke, he didn't express what I meant.

That common huddle can be broken.

Li Zhigang didn't even have the courage to defend himself, because I knew that it was useful to say anything now.

From then on, it was originally a business-to-business matter, and the small family would believe that he was instructed by the chairman to do something big to damage the interests of the small family?

Once that incident spreads, whether the entire Xiao Ming is in the center or the place, Li Zhigang will become a laughing stock!

Zhu Di looked fiercely at Li Zhigang in the back row of the hundred official queues.

The bustle in the sky is all for profit, and the hustle and bustle in the sky is for profit.

"I thought that Xia Yuanji had thick eyebrows and small eyes, and he also became a traitor outside the civil service!"

All right!

That's true, but can it be done?

My gaze fell on Li Zhigang's face full of confusion and guard.

A few days later, when I listened to Mr. Jiang's lecture, I still said something like "Xia Qing is doing things, and I am worried".

The red-robed clerk in front of him was the head of the civil officials, the most low-status official among the eight Shangshu, and he was righteous.

Shake hot.

Therefore, Cai Shenglang's proposal to let hundreds of officials and weak officials contribute to subscribe to the 'Xiao Ming Treasury Bonds' was really angry.

For Li Zhigang, the person who cut off the financial path of hundreds of officials.

The revelation must be Hong Wuzi's own intention, but the emperor's intention.

Is there any colleague who dared to retreat to the duty room of the home department to visit me, regardless of the fact that he had little relationship with him in the past.

It is important to offend hundreds of officials and be excluded, and it will be bad if you are interested in yourself, and go back to your hometown to farm.

After that, it was said that Cai Shengmen went to Chengtian Gate in the middle of the royal road, and crossed the Li Yuhe River crossed by the 'Li Qilong Bridge', and that part belonged to the "Imperial City" rather than the "Palace City".

Jian Yi nodded, what Xia Shangshu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, said wrongly, and I vaguely understood the living standards of the officials outside Nanjing.

The sound of the drums woke up Li Zhigang in thought.

Li Zhigang hid outside the duty room of the household department, struggling with that difficult time, my eyes looked intently into the window, and the sound of chattering drifted back.

"Bright plank road, dark Chen Cang."

That's a traitor what?

What is that a worker thief?

- Cai Shengzi.

As an old bureaucrat who was in the Xiaoming officialdom and came from the Jin Infant era, Li Zhigang judged the reason almost instantly.

The emperor sent Hong Wuzi to tell himself, not to be vague, he was not abandoned by the emperor, and the proposal I had to submit today was also likely to succeed, and everything was bad for the emperor's plan.

But if you offend your colleagues, you will offend the emperor, even if you don't even have the opportunity to go back to your hometown to farm.

When Jian Yi raised his head again, he found that Li Zhigang had not disappeared into the Jin Youmen.

From today on, I am no longer the god of wealth that everyone hates, but a traitor who has betrayed the interests of the entire civilian bureaucracy.

For Li Zhigang, yesterday I was still a hot little Ming God of Wealth.

It's really unfathomable!

Can that Xiaoming temple still be broken?

Don't say that it was said by Li Zhigang's household secretary, even if it was said by His Majesty, we have to ask for an explanation!

The crowd was arguing with each other.

As soon as the drum was passed, hundreds of officials lined up in the noon gate according to their ranks.

And Li Zhigang in front of him sat under the chair and came back to his senses for a long time.

The door was pushed open.

Eight drums, His Royal Highness Zhu Di rose to the throne wearing a crown, and the bell gradually stopped.

At that moment, suddenly there was no red-robed young man wearing sacrificial clothes, holding an ivory wat board to block Li Zhigang's way.

A long time ago.

"What 'Xiao Ming Treasury Bonds'? You see, if I'm trying to embezzle a huge sum of money! ”

According to the low emperor of Xiao Ming Taizu, he could only wait to starve to death.

The red-robed little man had a solemn bearing, with a majesty between his eyebrows, and when he saw this person come out to block his way, Li Zhigang's face suddenly became ugly.

Immediately, I stood up and took a step closer to Li Zhigang.

However, things are even more minor than Li Zhigang imagined.

Jian Yi sighed slightly: "Wei Zhe, he is a person who knows everything, and he should understand the truth of slow flow and brave progress." ”

Knowing it or not, the time for the small court meeting has come, and the generals of the little Han have not yet beaten the cowhide drum.

"Brother Yizhi, you don't have your difficulties."

"Wei Zhe, why is this so?"

At that moment, Cai Shenglang was inexplicably sad and indignant.

Hearing what the other party said, Li Zhigang's face became even more ugly, but at the beginning, I still forced out a smile and said with a wry smile: "Brother Yizhi, he should know you." ”

He is decent, and no one helps him to be decent.

Even if he can see it in a muddy way, Zhu Di can still feel everyone's resentful gaze, which really makes Li Zhigang show restraint behind his back.

"Who doesn't like less money? How does he explain that? ”

Li Zhigang's face changed suddenly: "What does he mean?" ”

I obviously haven't agreed to take the white pot with money out of my small pocket, why is the emperor willing to keep even a little room for himself?

Because the bureaucratic system, especially the household department, requires a certain degree of independence, and it is certain that all the officials think that I am the emperor's voice worm who is in charge of the money, and the work between me and the rest of the ministries will add a little obstacle that should exist, and will make me work more and more.

The man said lightly, although his tone was heavy, it gave people a very weak sense of oppression.

And the role that Xia Yuanji, the new chief financial officer, wants to play today is not to uphold the chairman's intentions, and in his own name, propose that the small family voluntarily "contribute" a part of the salary to the company.

Pick it up, just see how my beaten Huang Gai is really real, can he cooperate with the emperor, deceive everyone who didn't meet for any reason, and achieve the emperor's true purpose.

What exactly do you have to do to please the Emperor?

Seeing this person, Li Zhigang, who was backstabbed by me with my own hand, almost suppressed the anger that had accumulated to the limit, and blurted out the ridiculed words.

Suddenly, no one asked, "Can you impeach me first?" ”

But even if the officials don't have some fully compliant income, in fact, the Beijing officials are not limited, especially the poor Hanlin outside the Qingshui Yamen of the Hanlin Academy, which is all about taking out loans to get off work.

To be honest, I'm not ready to be humiliated by the people behind me.

The king wants his ministers to die, and the ministers have to die.

With a certain posture of looking at death as home, Xia Yuanji carried the request written in his arms, and planned to resign after reciting the pot, so as not to be impeached and come to power.

"What did the governor visit at that time?"

When Li Zhigang stepped into the carriage, he was greeted with compliments and greetings from his colleagues in the past, but colleagues who seemed to have seen some flood and beast because of the meeting, avoided it, hung their heads and looked around.

Before the words are spoken, Li Zhigang still has nothing bad to say?

That means that even the imperial history of picketing discipline may have participated in the denunciation of himself.

"That's right! You heard that there are not thousands of acres of fertile land outside my house, and with a month's worth of money, I can eat enough, and you rich people will open the pot! ”

That question was asked to everyone for a while, because Xiao Ming's law stipulates that officials must be impeached, which I want to avoid.

"But yes! They think about it, even if I am dismissed, I am afraid that no one will dare to take over my shift! ”

The cunning rabbit is still dead, so he slowly boils the water rack and cooks the dogs.

Hong Wuzi?

Hide from the world.

Hong Wuzi shook his head.

In other words, outside of a company with a long history, he was originally the chief financial officer (Tobe Langzhong), and the whole company has been doing a wrong job in the conscientious work of the successive general managers (prime ministers), and one day, the company was acquired by the new chairman (Zhu Yuanzhang), and the chairman himself served as the general manager.

After speaking, Cai Shenglang turned around and continued to walk backwards, leaving only Jian Yi looking at the content recorded under his ivory wat board.

"So what exactly does Li Zhigang want to do? Do I want to follow Chen Ying as a cool official to white? ”

Li Zhigang saw that, but for the safety of the boss of the family, I dared to obey Zhu Di, who was about to raise the butcher's knife, so Li Zhigang planned to finish carrying the pot, so he picked on it.

Otherwise, if Cai Shenglang is weak, he will avoid being impeached, not because of the emperor's ancestral teachings, which will be regarded as bullying the king, but the crime of killing the head and exterminating the four clans.

If you dare to do something that betrays the interests of the group, who will treat him as one of their own?

Li Zhigang gritted his teeth, bowed heavily to Jian Yi and said, "Before you leave, Brother Wangyi will work hard." ”

It's that Li Zhigang really thinks that as soon as the head is opened, I and my colleagues and subordinates are separated from morality, and few things in the past are really bad.

The Imperial Historian, who did not have an inspectorate, replied in a deep voice, "As far as you know, according to the law, it should be feasible. ”

On the east side of that road, there are the duty rooms of the Eighth Department of the Association, the Hanlin Academy and other departments.

With the opening of Cai Sheng's door, those officials gathered next to the household duty room to watch the silence, the flow of people was sparse, and the white pressure was overwhelming, and the household duty room was surrounded by water.

Whoever breaks well will cause the chairman to take advantage of the weakness and take away the authority that was originally exclusive to each department has something to do with who is the boss of the department.

Hong Wuzi flicked his shirt, lifted his official robe and sat under the chair in the duty room, and poured himself a cup of tea.

At that time, Xia Shangshu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites next to him, came behind him and whispered to me: "Gong Jian, the officials above are talking about it, if Your Majesty is like this, if your majesty uses the 'Xiao Ming national debt' to deduct the hundred officials, Xia Yuanji will help this matter, don't say that the low-grade ones have to worry about supporting the boss of the family, and this high-grade Beijing official is afraid that even the loan owed last month will still pay off the interest." ”

Cai Shenglang suppressed his anger, looked at the other party fiercely, and spoke.

"That kind of thing...... Cai Shenglang may also be forced to ......"

It's not that it is certain that the imperial historians preemptively impeached Li Zhigang at the end of the small court meeting, and Li Zhigang must avoid it, so I have the law to put forward my proposal to let the emperor deduct hundreds of officials as the first batch of subscriptions for 'Xiao Ming Treasury Bonds'.

It was a river crossing and a bridge to be demolished, but a bitter ploy.

"They're all blind! Who knows that I don't have thousands of acres of fertile land outside my home? Does he think I'll be short of money? ”

But when the words came to my mouth, I was forced to press them myself.

The curtain opens, and then it comes on.

These officials and imperial historians who have been deducted from the throne, it doesn't matter what reason he had, forced or active, we only know that we were complained by our mother-in-law when we went home!

"Then Cai Shenglang is really a traitorous adult, relying on his own lack of His Majesty's favor, he acts recklessly and recklessly, which is simply cowardly!"

There was a lot of discussion among the officials about that incident, exchanging information on the spread of various avenues, and everyone had the same opinion on that matter, but there was no doubt about it.

Is there an emperor nodding, do I dare?

"But yes! If none of our colleagues happen to reveal it today, I'm afraid we'll be kept out of the dark forever. ”

So why delay leaking the news?

After saying those four words, Hong Wuzi got up directly and left.

Uncle Seven's business ability is slightly inferior to the chairman of the board, so the establishment of the board of directors office (cabinet) as a secretarial body, but what is that, according to the company's historical heritage, all departments including human resources (Ministry of Officials), regulations (Ministry of Rites), discipline inspection (Inspectorate), finance (household department), etc., are in charge of their own affairs, as an independent mountain, in the same time as their own interests at the same time, they are also reporting to each other, and jointly opposing the chairman (emperor) is a reasonable requirement.

And what few officials speculated was the same, and the communication between the two was full of gunpowder.

Looking at the direction of the other party's departure, Jian Yi clenched the wat board, and his eyes revealed a deep sadness and resentment.

As soon as he turned his head, he abandoned you like a shoe.

(End of chapter)