"The capital is under the emperor's feet, and there are still corvees, but what about the land? Every state in the world builds city walls, dredges rivers, and transports grain and grass to border towns. Aren't all the people who contribute the effort are ordinary farmers?"

In the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Yunxi looked unkind. The dragon robe on his body still had the stains from outside the city just now, and the boots on his feet were also stained with mud and water.

All the ministers bowed and stood in front of him, holding their breath for fear of offending the emperor.

"I have repeatedly said that as an official, you should be compassionate and cherish the power of the people. But just at the beginning of the new year, you let me choose a mausoleum. What is your intention? No matter how well-built my mausoleum is, what benefit will it have to the world?"

"The mausoleum of the First Emperor of the past is still there, and we can see the prosperous age of the Qin Dynasty. The mausoleum of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is still there, and we can see the two Han Dynasties. The mausoleum of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty is so magnificent. The 289 years of the Tang Dynasty are said to be a glorious and prosperous age, but what did the people live? day?"

The ministers lowered their heads and did not dare to speak, and the atmosphere in the Qianqing Palace dropped to freezing point.

Zhu Yunxi's anger continued, "Xia Yuanji, the left minister of the Ministry of Rites!"

"I'm here!"

"Demoted three levels to stay in office, and fined salary for three years!" Zhu Yunxi said bitterly, "As a high official of the imperial court, if you give me any advice in the future, think about what you can and cannot say. If you don't understand, you official There’s no need to do it anymore!”

"I thank Heaven!" Xia Yuanji's back was soaked with cold sweat. It took ten years of hard work and twenty years for his official career to be what it is today, but it was ruined in one fell swoop. Although the emperor did not punish him too severely, it was obvious that he was tired of him. heart.

Even if the emperor doesn't bother him, this is the biggest stain in his career, and there is no possibility of advancement.

"The same is true for you ministers in the South Study Room!" Zhu Yunxi continued to say in a hateful voice, "Do you still need to report to the emperor about this kind of thing?"

"I am waiting for death!" Several people in the south study quickly leaned over to apologize.

"Hmph, I asked you to take the picture. Did it capture the horse's hooves?" As he leaned over, Li Jinglong looked at Xia Yuanji's side face and sneered, but the next second his eyes inadvertently fell on Zhang Yan, Hou Yong and others, and in his heart Suddenly woke up.

"That's right, Nan Shufang just refutes this kind of thing. It's not like Zhang Yan and the others don't know the emperor's thoughts!" He secretly thought about the scene in Nan Shufang that morning.

Zhang Yan read the memorial sent by the General Secretary and said he was undecided, and then passed it on to others. Hou Yong, Rujun, Bao Zhao and others also said they were undecided, and finally a few of them said they would send it to the imperial court to invite the emperor. Decide.

Although Xie Jin objected, his words had no effect. He and Xu Huizu had never paid much attention to such matters and just followed the crowd.

"Haha, Xia Yuanji let a few people from the Nan Study Room play quietly!" Li Jinglong wanted to understand the connection and secretly laughed, "Haha, it's interesting. These civil servants are really damn capable. It’s so dark!”

Thinking of this in his mind, Li Jinglong raised his head slightly. The moment his eyes touched the emperor's face, his liver trembled violently, and he quickly lowered his head.

The angry emperor seemed to be carved from the same mold as the former emperor, and it was scary to look at him.

~~

All the ministers came out of Qianqing Palace with gloomy faces and their own concerns.

Many people glanced at the pale Xia Yuanji with complicated eyes, then sighed and shook their heads and walked away.

Xia Yuanji's lips were dry and he wanted to find someone to talk to, but he found that all his former colleagues stayed away from him, as if they were afraid of getting into his bad luck.

He stood there for a long time, finally sighed, and walked out listlessly with his hands behind his back. For a moment, he seemed much older.

In this way, he came out of Daming Gate, walked the long thousand -step gallery, blushed and was impatient to go back to the Ministry of Ritual through the gate of the Ministry of Households.

Waving his hand to retreat to the officials who reported to the official business, and the anger went straight towards a business house on the right.

It happened that the business house was opening, revealing a very elegant, smiley smiley face.

"Wei, just came out of the palace?"

Seeing the man's smiley face, Nathara Ji gritted his teeth, "Li Yixing, you hurt me so hard!"

"This?" The official named Li Yixing froze, hurriedly looked at the left and right, and asked Xia Yuan Jira to his own room, closed the door and asked, "What, something happened?"

~~

Li Yixing's name is Li Zhigang, and the official official ritual right servant.

Daming is respected by the left, so he is lower than Xia Yuanji's official level, which means that he is the No. 3 character of the Ministry of Rites.

In his early years, he was recommended to attend the East Palace to serve the old prince Zhu Biao to study. Later, he was distributed in place because of making mistakes. Then he had a merit in the local area.

This talent learns, but it is too much thought of the drilling camp, and it can also be put on the lower body. Although it is only half a grid lower than Nathara Kya's grade, it has always been the first to look at the other party, and followed by the plan.

Xia Yuanji's memorial this time came from his handwriting. The reason was really like Zhu Yunzheng's thoughts.

"You're bitter me!" Xia Yuanji bit his teeth and described the matter of Chaotang again.

Li Zhigang listened, but also changed color, stood on the spot.

"Why did I believe in your words?" Xia Yuanji stomped his feet, "My face in my life was lost today ..."

"Wait, Victoria! Let's let people play!" Li Zhigang said, pressing Xia Yuanji on his seat, "If you think about it, if this fold is directly reached the front, even if the emperor dislikes it, isn't it?

Isn't it so big? "

Xia Yuanji was stunned, thinking about it really.

At most the most, the emperor called him privately, and then reprimanded him a few words. Where would he be as good as today, in front of the Wenwu face inside and outside the imperial city, he did not leave him.

"Our memorial should be reasonable to reach the imperial front. Those people in the South Study Room are first seen before, and they deliberately get the emperor and say three and four before they get a furious."

It is to know that the emperor would not have the folding son at this time. At that time, the emperor would say a few words, let's go to the folding son to praise the saint grace. In this way, the emperor understands our loyalty and will naturally look at it. "

His countless calculations can not be described as not clever. Find an excuse for Zhu Yunzhang to say a few words, and then write a song to sing and sing the virtue, and then the chanting of the Sheng Ming monarch ...

"They see you and me, and deliberately make stalks!"

"His!" Xia Yuanji hated his eyes, he frowned with Changsan. Haihai was unprepared for so many years, and he was not completely indifferent, but he didn't think so much just now.

Suddenly realized.

"But, the people in the South Study Room .... It doesn't make sense to do this! Everyone is the same as that of the same dynasty. Why do you want to do this?"

Li Zhigang sighed halfway, "I was negligent, Hou Yong was in the south study room. When I was working with him in Henan, I repeatedly had a cricket."

! "Said, and low words," There is no other mind! "

"Also?" Xia Yuanji was surprised.

"The Xin Shangshu of the Ministry of Li Ren was the Gong Gong Yuan Yuanlang, but the same year as the Yushi Shizhen, Yan Zhenzhi and others were under the door of Ling Yongzhao and others.

The reason why Lord Zheng Zheng resigned is the old Bachelor of Ling ... Wei Yi, you have always been closer to Zheng Butang ... "

Xia Yuanji's eyebrows locked deeply, "What do you mean? Isn't it?" Said, "This curve is too big, although I and they are not familiar with it, but it is not ..."

"Hey, where can you want to be sinister. You and I run up and down in the Ministry of Rites. Then Ren Shangshu is now being set up by us. They naturally regard us as a hatred, and we have blocked the road of others!"

road.

"This ..." Xia Yuanji smiled bitterly, "There are so many enemies in somehow?"

"There is no way to heaven!" Li Zhigang lowered.

"What are the opinions of the line?"
Chapter completed!