Chapter Thirteen
It was June, and the heat was unbearable in all parts of the empire, and some places were even dying of heat. All regions submitted memorials to the court and asked how to deal with it.
At this moment, the man in the dragon robe was still in the small study room. Facing the pile of memorials, even he couldn't help but rub his head. He looked at the eunuch Bingbi next to him, who lowered his head, obviously unable to explain a solution.
"Eunuch Liu, what do you think about this?" But the man in the dragon robe seemed to be dissatisfied and still pointed at the old eunuch.
Eunuch Bingbi looked up at the emperor, his eyes dodged, and after a while he was still shaking his head.
"I said, Eunuch Liu, you are so old. You have been with the late emperor for more than ten years and have been with me for four or five years. Not to mention how many memorials you have approved for me or how many ideas you have come up with me, I just say that you have learned a lot of things with the late emperor, why is it so difficult to come up with an idea this time?" The emperor said helplessly.
Eunuch Bingbi said slowly: "Back to the emperor, I really don't know how to deal with it. I am not good at local issues. If you ask me about the personalities and evaluations of Chinese civil and military officials in the court, I can give you some advice, but if you don't know what you just asked, I will never know what I can do. Just spare me!"
The man in the dragon robe smiled and said, "Oh? Then what about you, Shoufu Ouyang?"
"Hahaha, Master, just let me go. How can I evaluate the prime minister?" The eunuch Bingbi actually laughed.
"Okay, I won't joke with you anymore. Is there something happened in the capital recently?" The man in the dragon robe suddenly said seriously.
Eunuch Bingbi thought about it and said, "When you go back to the emperor, there are no major things, they are all trivial matters. If the emperor is interested in listening to which prince beat the son of the Shangshu during this period, or the innocent woman from which family was occupied by the prince of the minister, I can talk to you about a few hours."
The man in the dragon robe laughed loudly and said, "I didn't expect that the ceremonial supervisor would joke? It's interesting, interesting."
"I remember, recently, there is something really happening." Eunuch Bingbi suddenly said seriously.
"Oh? Let's hear it."
"The Eagle came to report, and the scholar from Nanchen fourteen years ago seemed to appear again." Eunuch Bingbi whispered.
The man in the dragon robe was slightly stunned and asked, "Is it the one who was seriously injured by General Chu?"
Eunuch Bingbi said as he stood up to polish the ink for the emperor and whispered: "Well, it's the old man. It's rumored that he was seriously injured and could not even heal. Then he ran to Taihe Mountain to live in one of the peaks. He hadn't appeared for fourteen years, maybe he was hiding from us."
"Hidding us? It's better to say that he was hiding General Chu. That battle destroyed General Chu's mood very much. It seems that General Chu has been looking for him after his injuries have been healed in recent years. He has been to Taihe Mountain several times, but unfortunately he has never even entered the back mountain once." The emperor sighed.
"Then how can you get so easy to get into the back of Taihe Mountain? Not to mention that Yang Ping, who is now fifth in the Taoist List, is the young master who is now in the limelight. He heard that his strength is also unfathomable." The old eunuch said in a plain tone.
"Uncle Master?" The emperor was obviously not familiar with these things in the world.
"It's the junior brother of Zhenren Yangping, who is only over twenty years old, but he was accepted as a closed disciple by his former Tianshi. He is of extraordinary talent." Eunuch Bingbi replied patiently.
However, the man in the dragon robe was not very interested in these things. He just said "Oh" and disappeared. Obviously, he was more concerned about the president of the Nanchen Academy and asked: "Where did that president of the academy appear? I am still more concerned about this issue. After finding his position, I will tell General Chu. In addition, I will pick some powerful people from the eagle and let them follow General Chu and bring the old man back together. Can I not kill him or not?"
The emperor suddenly paused again, thought for a while and said, "Forget it, I know General Chu's character, and I will definitely not let the eagle follow him. Don't call the eagle, just tell General Chu directly."
Eunuch Bingbi looked at the emperor with a wry smile and said, "Your Majesty, you haven't heard the old slave say where he appeared."
The man in the dragon robe smiled and said, "That's right, it doesn't matter. As long as he is above my territory, it will be the same, it will be the same."
"Everyone in the world is my kingly land, just the president of Nanchen Academy."
"No matter how powerful it is, it is more than 200,000 of my Iron Cavalry?"
"Go back to the emperor, that place is small and can't accommodate 200,000 cavalry." Eunuch Bingbi smiled, "Your Majesty, the last time he appeared was in Gusuzhou..."
When the man in the dragon robe heard this, he obviously didn't expect it and said, "Why are these things together? How could this coincidence happen?"
"Yes, my master, so I also think it's strange. Why did the second prince suddenly come to Gusuzhou when he went to Gusuzhou? If it weren't for the fact that there was someone in our eagle who knew that old man, we wouldn't know even if the dean opened a college in Gusuzhou." The old eunuch said helplessly.
"You said, would he come for Chengde?" the emperor asked.
"It's not impossible. Even if you didn't come for the second prince, what if it was for the young man..." Eunuch Bingbi suddenly whispered.
"This is not true. If you have to come to that young man, why wait until today?" The emperor rejected it.
"But what if he didn't appear in Gusuzhou recently?"
"Maybe he was deliberately trying to let us discover it recently?"
The eunuch Bingbi asked several questions in a row, and the man in the dragon robe slid his head again.
"You go check again." The emperor thought for a moment and said in a deep voice.
"Emperor, when will the General Chu notify?" the old eunuch asked again.
"Wait a little longer."
You have to be patient to accomplish great things. I have survived the emperor, the princes, and the late emperor.
I'm still afraid that who can't stand it?
At the same time, there was a group of people in a small house in the dynasty of the palace.
The small house is not big, but it has a lot of value. Every year, many people want to come in, but unfortunately they fail to get what they want.
Even if someone is lucky enough to find the right way in, he will be driven out in less than a few days. Even after being driven out, he will almost never be reused again. He either goes to the frontier or goes to other places. In short, there is no good result. Over time, those incapable officials will cry and say not to transfer him in even if they have a way in.
But there are always a few people who want to feel it every year.
The fat man with a blushing face and slapped the table loudly was one of them, named Qin Luwei. He was transferred to this small house in March this year, but a few months have passed, and his life seems to be not easy now.
Today, people in this small house are discussing that droughts have occurred in various places to varying degrees recently, and even the phenomenon of people dying of heat. How to solve it? Qin Lu thought for a long time and finally thought of some methods. At least he had a chance to play it out today, so he talked a lot.
But no one in the small room listened to him and chatted on his own.
What made him most angry was that he was talking about some irrelevant topics, which general's daughter is going to get married, and help me think about which young master is better, which Shangshu is going to retire again, and discussing which one to recommend.
If the fat man was still understanding about the position, he saw these people still busy being "matchmakers", and for a moment he was angry. He vented the resentment in his heart during this period on the table, so he blushed and slapped the table.
The gray-bearded old man sitting in the second chair on his right was staring at him, and the others turned around and stared at Qin Luwei. He suddenly felt that he was a little out of control and hurriedly said, "Sorry, sorry, everyone. He was anxious for a moment and wanted to do something practical for the people, but he couldn't control it..." His voice became smaller and smaller, so small that he could not hear it.
The middle-aged man standing in the corner looked at Qin Luwei with a smile and said, "I heard from Master Qin that we have not done practical things for the people?"
Qin Luwei suddenly realized that there was something wrong with what he said just now, so he saved him again: "I dare not, I mean we are all thinking about the people, but the issues we are eager to consider are different. I think the most urgent thing is to think about how to solve the drought. How can the people bear it when the weather is so hot?"
"I think what you said makes sense, so what should I do if you see?" said the old man with white bearded looking at Qin Luwei.
In order to clear his throat, Qin Lu said loudly: "First, I think our court must open the treasury and distribute supplies to areas with severe drought in the country, and solve the most urgent problem first. If the high temperatures in various places are not under, the yield of grain crops will definitely decrease sharply, and the accompanying famine will definitely be famine, so we have to open the granary and distribute supplies together." After he finished speaking, he looked at everyone again and saw that everyone was not speaking, so he said: "Second, I suggest that a large number of immigration will be carried out in areas with severe droughts, and move to areas with less severe droughts, and return after the disaster is over."
"Continue talking." The white-bearded old man signaled to continue.
"Third, report the disaster to the emperor and ask whether the emperor can hold a sacrificial ceremony and ask the sky for rain to bless me Yuanqing."
Qin Lu said three points in one breath and felt much more relieved.
He originally thought that these three points would be beaten back one by one, but he never expected that there would be silent in the small study.
He seemed a little uneasy inside.
Is the measures I mentioned very problematic?
Just as he was thinking, a sound of stroking his palms sounded inside the room.
"Congratulations, Grand Secretary Qin, for being able to stay in the hut for a while, he performed well." The middle-aged man who had been in the corner walked up, patted his shoulder, and said something inexplicable to him.
"Look, Grand Secretary Qin, except for the third point, everything is quite right." Another thin and long-bearded man handed him a memorial.
The memorial contains almost all the content he said, even much more perfect than him.
What's going on?
Is this an assessment?
It is worthy of being a cabinet.
Chapter completed!