The methods of Plum Berry and Dongfang Jing'an made all the people in the imperial capital see unprecedented toughness.

Because of this, the official canonization of plum berries and Dongfang Jing'an was really put on the agenda soon after the beginning of winter, and it was set on the nineteenth day of the winter month.

But there is a small episode before that.

Ruan En, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites who arranged these canonization matters, had to see Mei Berry.

This is the old thorn head who has been sick at home since the regency of the Queen Mother, and when he arrives at Meiberry, he still tries to let him work.

Why did Dongfang Jing'an let him work and suddenly want to see himself?

When she wants to see her, can she see it?

Mei Berry's little temper came up, so he directly stepped on the thunder point of others and asked people to come to Zichen Hall to meet.

This is the palace on behalf of the emperor, even if Mei Berry invites someone to meet in the side hall, this is also very provocative, which makes Ruan En, who was already very prejudiced against Mei Berry, even more angry.

So what Mei Berry saw was the white-fried old man whose beard and hair color were in harmony and seamless.

"Lord Ao, please be seated."

Nguyen En: ?

Plum Berry: Ah, slip of the tongue.

"Ahem, get a chair for Ruan Shangshu."

Mei Berry smiled slightly to hide her embarrassment, and Ruan En was made a question mark by Mei Berry's nonsensical words.

He was about to say something, but he heard Plum Berry suddenly ask him what kind of tea he wanted to drink, saying that it was not good for him to just sit there.

Ruan Enyou was blocked for a while, so he said with Mei Berry's heart, and drank a cup of Pu'er tea that lowers blood pressure and blood lipids.

After this relaxation, Mei Berry simply asked Ruan En how he was doing, and Ruan En's spirit was shocked, and he felt that the main event was coming.

After all, he had been reasoning for a long time that his body was not good, and he was about to answer, but he didn't expect that Mei Berry's words seemed to be talking to himself, so he said again:

"Lord Ruan, you have been recuperating at home for three years, and you have to ask the imperial doctor three times a month, and you will have all the benefits you deserve, and we can be regarded as benevolent and righteous......

"Are you going to dismiss Weichen's official?!"

Listening to Plum Berry's words, he stood up with a thud.

Mei Berry looked up and saw Ruan En's eyes wide in anger, glaring at him, and asked:

"Your Majesty wants me to start the canonization ceremony between you and Your Majesty, and now you are saying that these are officials who want to remove Wei Chen?!"

"Oh, no. I'm just saying that you've been sick for too long, and you don't go to the yamen to give a look, it's not a good example. How can anyone like you just take money and don't work? ”

Mei Berry's serious and disapproving appearance made Ruan En's momentum suddenly weaken.

just, inexplicably weak-hearted.

"Wechen...... Wechen was sick before, thanks to ...... The emperor was sympathetic to ......"

Stumbling, Ruan En himself felt as if something was wrong.

"Yes, you have been sick for so long, and no one has dismissed you and driven you home, which is really compassionate. I think that adults must be talented, otherwise you will be sick, and the first emperor and the queen mother are reluctant to let you go. ”

Mei Berry nodded understandingly, and stretched out her hand to let him sit down, and praised Ruan En again, "Jing An also values Lord Ruan, so I hope that Lord Ruan will preside over the canonization." ”

Nguyen En: "Minister......"

"But—"

Just as a wisp of gratitude rose in Ruan En's heart, he listened to Mei Berry say:

"However, the total subsidies for the loss of pen and ink, charcoal, and paper on duty in the yamen are all sent to you with twenty taels of silver a year, which is too wasteful."

Nguyen En: ?

"How much is this worth?"

Looking at Mei Berry's painful face, Ruan En's anger that had just disappeared couldn't help but come up, he stared at Mei Berry, and felt that Mei Berry actually used such a little money to stab him, it was too petty!

"How much is it worth?"

Hearing Ruan En's words, Mei Berry also looked up at Ruan En, and asked, "Do you know what twenty taels means to ordinary people?"

Let's just say that those farmers who farm the land, a family of seven or eight, pure farming, do not eat or drink for most of the year, and do not earn ten taels. As soon as you lie down at home, the court will make up for your family's seven or eight years of farming money without eating or drinking for two years.

If you sleep at home according to the tax, the court will pay you five or six taxes paid by each family for a year. ”

The left sentence of Meiberry "lie down" and the right sentence of "sleep and sleep" made people's faces red.

"If you are sick, there is also a doctor to show you, and you will not be charged. It's not that we don't pay money, so why do you even want this money? In the same situation as you, there are also the criminal department shangshu, the right servant of Taichang Temple, and the household department shangshu ......"

This time, it was Mei Berry's turn to order the people who didn't work for her some time ago, and Ruan En's face was sometimes red and sometimes white when she listened.

I couldn't say what I wanted to say before, but I couldn't say it at all.

He also thought that he would be questioned by Xingshi after he saw Plum Berry today, but he didn't expect it to be like this.

"You sick ministers lie down at home, how many people follow the money to give money.

The amount of grain and silver in the treasury for the construction of water conservancy, roads, and disaster relief every year will be reduced.

The embankment of thousands of miles collapsed in the silver and did not reach it.

After the levee burst, the corpses were scattered for thousands of miles, and the next year there will be tax cuts for the affected areas, and the treasury will be reduced by another amount.

But we still have to pay you if you lie down and don't work, and the treasury has no money to build roads and dams, and then there is an accident, and there are fewer people in the accident......"

Mei Berry worriedly gave the other party a vicious circle theory, and Ruan En's eyes lit up with Venus, and his eyes went black, and he staggered and fell into the chair behind his buttocks.

After a long time, he looked up at Mei Berry with difficulty, and said, "So, do you want to cure Weichen's sin?" ”

Mei Berry: [This old man really doesn't eat oil and salt, why do you think I'm going to punish him?] 】

There was no one around, but Plum Berry still wanted to talk to someone.

System: [What are you going to do with the host?] 】

[Of course, it is to squeeze excellent labor!] Standing in the pit and not working, won't his conscience hurt when he collects money? 】

Regarding the idea of plum berries, the system said: [It should hurt to look like this. But this old man has always had a stereotype about you, doesn't he just think that you want to punish you? 】

"Oh, what do you say about punishing crimes, you are also not guilty of ignorance." After Mei Berry figured it out, he quickly replied and told him not to think about it.

But Mei Berry made Ruan En have to think about it.

Halfway through, Ruan En looked up at Mei Berry again, and looked at Mei Berry's smiling appearance, and his body was cold.

This man and wife laugh exactly the same way!

Both of them will do it on purpose!

"However, since Lord Ruan, you want to repent so much, then let's do it, work hard, let's just deduct the silver from the back, work as soon as possible and atone for your sins as soon as possible."

Nguyen En: ???

Ah no, that means he's really guilty?

"The Queen."

Suddenly, Ruan En called Mei Berry so seriously and startled Mei Berry.

"What's the matter, my lord?"

"Is this what you're looking for Weichen today?"

Berry: "Emmm, is it possible, today—is it your lordship that you want to see me?" What are you looking for from me? ”

Nguyen En: ......

···

"And then?"

I met Ruan En in the morning, and in the afternoon, Hu Yanqing came to report to Mei Berry, and Mei Berry told Hu Yanqing about the morning.

After listening to the conversation between Mei Berry and Ruan En, the expression on Hu Yanqing's face became very strange.

To be honest, if he were Ruan En, he would be confused.

"Then, he asked me what kind of queen canonization I wanted, and said what kind of canonization I had in the past, to see if I could accept it, then I definitely didn't accept it."

Hu Yanqing was silent for a moment, and then asked, "Well, I think I want to test your relationship with His Majesty, did you tell him directly?" ”

"I said I listened to Jing An~"

Hu Yanqing: "......"

That's not imposing at all!

Feeling Hu Yanqing's disgusted expression, Mei Berry also smiled evilly:

Then I asked him, didn't Jing An tell you our request before? He began to be silent for a long time, but fortunately I had let him drink tea earlier, and he still wanted to change his clothes, so I said that I would leave after answering. ”

Hu Yanqing: "......"

"Jing An has long told me about Ruan En's requirements and instructions, but he thinks that Jing An is growing my ambition by doing this, what if I become the second queen mother, don't you come here today to weaken my arrogance?"

Hu Yanqing listened to what Mei Berry said, and then listened to what Mei Berry did this morning, Hu Yanqing didn't know what Mei Berry's ambition was, but the other party's arrogance must be small. (End of chapter)