Chapter 44: The Big Mistake
Chapter 44: A big mistake
Sushun's sudden behavior was because he remembered something. Since ancient times, he has been using human authority to be the best. As yesterday, he has always been the most taboo for his ministers. Recommending talents is what the ministers should do, and should not be regarded as boons. Being an official is an official in the court. You should be grateful to the emperor's kindness rather than the kindness of recommending the master. Although there were also Dongyi actions in ancient times, in this Qing Dynasty, the emperor's authority was the most important, so he didn't even think about it!
It is true that the new king has a good impression of himself, but if the emperor knows the answer between him and Zai Quan, the favor that had just risen will be immediately dispelled. This doesn't count. If he feels bad again because of this matter, it will be difficult to recover.
Shi Yizhi, a famous minister in the Shizong Dynasty, was recommended by the powerful minister Nian Gengyao. When Nian Gengyao failed and was sentenced to death, Yongzheng made a great copy of Guaman. Because Shi Yizhi was recommended by him, he was naturally among them. However, Shi Yizhi was very smart and thought that there would be such a day, so he was prepared for it. He was very appropriate when the preface was correct, so he won the heart of heaven. He said this: "The person who recommended the minister was Nian Gengyao, and the person who used the minister was the emperor."
Sushun was secretly angry: Why couldn't I remember this past thing yesterday? This is also because he has a strong sense of fame and fortune. Then again, who in the court would not want to be the master of the promises, but to do the miscellaneous job that is just a hard work?
Sushun knew that if this matter was not handled well, it would sooner or later become a disaster. He also hated that he had read a few books and could not even think of a countermeasure. How could this be? Sitting in the second hall, he was too lazy to even go to the yamen, so his wife kept sending her family to ask: "Master, don't you want to earn money today?"
"Oh, I'll leave, I'll leave." He ordered the listener to prepare the sedan chair and walked out of the gate. Before getting on the sedan chair, he finally thought of a solution: not to go to the yamen, go directly to Prince Zheng's mansion.
He is the prince's younger brother, so naturally he doesn't need to be informed at all. When he entered the inner house, he saw Duan Hua. The latter was taking out the snuff from the snuff bottle with an ivory spoon to smell it: "Swish, Swish!" Seeing Sushun coming at a glance, the prince's sneeze was not coming out and then held back. He couldn't mention the trouble: "Lao Liu, why are you here? Don't you need to make a value?"
"Brother, please save me." As he said that, Sushun had already lowered his lower body.
"Oh, what do you mean? Get up quickly, get up quickly. Brothers, why should you do this? You blind people have not helped Master Six up?"
He helped Sushun up, and the two brothers took their seats and ordered the servants to wait for tea. Duanhua slowly picked up the snuff bottle, and then asked, "Lao Liu, what's going on?"
Duan Hua was pitch black and he was stuttering in his mouth as he was telling him. When he finished speaking, he had no idea: "Are you doing this, sixth brother, what did you think?"
Su Shun smiled bitterly in his heart. If I knew what to do, would I still need to go to your mansion? Of course, I couldn't say that, so I had to bow my head and say nothing. The two brothers sat in the sad city, Duanhua looked around and said, "I said, what time is it now?"
"When I say it to you, it's already past the hour."
"Oh, no!" Duan Hua didn't dare to sit upright anymore and stood up quickly: "Hurry, prepare a sedan chair for me, I'm going to enter the palace."
"What's wrong?"
"Oh, oh, oh, it's really bad." Duanhua shouted without any wits: "Today I was going to discuss the emperor's entry into the garden with King Yi and the King of Monks. Oh, why did I forget this? Come here, damn thing, why don't you serve the master and get into the sedan chair?"
The servant heard that he was busy and finally let the sedan chair leave the mansion. Only Su Shun stood alone in the flower hall. However, the pen style of the royal palace asked Su Quanyou's Han people to greet him: "Sixth Master?"
"Ah," Su Shun woke up from a dream, and Duan Hua reminded him that things had happened. Since he could not avoid it, he might as well go to the emperor to explain it clearly and take the initiative. He immediately bowed to the pen style in the mansion.
Prince Zheng Duanhua, Prince Yi Zaiyuan, Prince Mongolian Prince Senggelinqin, Minister of Rites Sun Ruizhen, Minister of Works Du Shoutian and other cabinet scholars, and officials of the Six Ministry of Works met in the southern study: "I asked the emperor for his will. This time, the servants who followed the entourage into the garden, in addition to the inner palace, should other concubines of the previous emperor be arranged?"
"Admiration, can there be such a precedent in previous years?"
"Reply to the emperor's words, according to previous years, except for the Empress Dowager, the concubines of other advanced emperors cannot be followed as usual. However, the emperor is purely filial and has to pay tribute to the concubine's palace every day. If he goes to the garden, he is afraid that it will not be so convenient. It is better to arrange for the concubine to move into the garden before the emperor takes office. In the future, the emperor can also settle the province in the morning and evening?"
"For this matter, I'd better ask the concubine what she meant. Well, wait tomorrow. When I go to pay my respects tomorrow, I'll ask myself. If the concubine is interested, prepare in advance."
"yes."
"Does the young masters living in the palace also need to move in with their entourage?"
"They entered the study room and studied for a short time. They should not lose their energy by going to the garden. This time they will not take them there. I am not in the forbidden area. The study of the emperor's brothers, Genfeng and Yuntang, you two are the masters of the study room. We must supervise them seriously and not allow them to be abandoned one day."
"Yes!" Weiren and Jia Zhen kowtowed at the same time: "I should do my best to instruct several emperor brothers to study hard."
"Also, it's all the matters in Beijing, Pu Gong, have you left."
"Yes," Zhuo Bingtian nodded solemnly: "The old minister understands."
The emperor smiled happily and stood up from the seat. The ministers followed and lined up in a geese-wing shape in front of him: "Okay. Let's come here today. If you have any temporary things, I will repay you to me. Let's kneel down and rest."
Everyone knelt out and stood there. Before the emperor could rest for a while, they ordered to return to Yangxin Palace to deliver food. Duan Hua once again handed in the sign: "Your Majesty, I have a secret matter and want to make a secret document."
He was sent in again, but who knew that there was something he wanted to say to him but was not him. This time he came in, but only for his younger brother. Some of the words Sushun wanted to tell the emperor that Duanhua was just asking for a meeting on behalf of his brother.
The two brothers' behavior also made the emperor very curious. Duanhua immediately introduced the minister and led Su Shun to the imperial front: "I wish you a blessing to my master!"
"You want to see me, what do you have to say?"
"Yes!" Sushun lowered his head deeply: "There is something that a slave must report to him in person."
"I'm here, do you tell me?"
Su Shun agreed, "Yes!" and immediately told the conversation with Zai Quan yesterday and everything that happened in Ding County Prince's Mansion.
After hearing this, the emperor was very silent for a while, but then he suddenly slapped the table and was furious: "Sushun, you are so brave! Do you think I will believe you just by saying this? You are alienating me and close to the royal family. You are committing a death sentence!"
Sushun and Duanhua were shocked. The two of them hurriedly knelt down again. Before they could wait for Duanhuawei's younger brother to say a few good words, they heard him crying: "Emperor, I am the only emperor in my heart, only I, the Qing Dynasty. Others, whether they are relatives or nobles in the royal family, I will ignore them! As long as they are for the emperor, even if they are broken into pieces, even if they offend people all over the world, they will be happy!"
"Ha!" The emperor's expression was very strange, as if he was moved, and as if he was ridiculed. He said, "It is of course easy to talk about it. Can it be done specifically?"
Before Sushun could tell the words he was about to tell, he waved his hand to stop him: "If there is nothing, you can go down."
The emperor's handling of this made the two brothers Sushun particularly disappointed. It was not that he hoped that he could achieve any goal through this matter. However, even if he didn't let Zi Chengzhong say that this seemed to be much different from the emperor's usual attitude towards handling the government?
After this time, Sushun really offended Zai Quan. Both of them were royal families and worked in the Nine Gate Admiral's yamen, and they were even more affiliated. Naturally, Zai Quan had some ways to deal with Sushun. The Nine Gate Admiral was responsible for managing the ground security in Beijing. In fact, there were many things to be managed, such as guarding the capital, inspecting, access control, night patrols, bans, baojia, and arrests, all of them were their work scope. As the leader of the left wing under the command of the infantry, Sushun was like the left and right hand of Shangguan, and his daily position was just sitting in the hall and listening to his subordinates' reports. He could not easily go out for a tour in person.
However, this incident happened, Zai Quan hated his ignorance of being ungrateful, so he became troublesome: "Yu Ting, the emperor told us the last time he summoned him. This area of good fortune under the emperor's feet is even more a place for Chinese and foreign appearances. He must never allow any inferior people to be in it. The Nine Gate Admirals will serve his duties, so he will naturally take responsibility."
"Yes, what the lord said is reasonable, and I am extremely impressed by my post."
"But, the current infantry commander's yamen is full of drunkenness and dreams. Everyone is perfunctory in business affairs and has no intention of making progress. So I think, Yuting, you have to work harder."
"Yes, please give me instructions."
"You will be responsible for this night patrol in Beijing for the time being. In addition to the daytime duty, you have to work on duty every night. I patrol in this city. I think you will have to work harder, so there will be no problem, right?"
"The lord appointed a subordinate to the post and the low-ranking officials should receive the order."
Chapter completed!