It was a quiet morning, but in front of the Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City, there was a lot of restlessness.
Hu Guan picked at the kneeling officials one by one, and those who could handle him directly stood up to each other regardless of whether they were willing or not. Of course, this kind of reluctance does not necessarily mean that they are unwilling.
"Prince-in-law, we are kneeling down waiting for the emperor to summon us, can't you wait a moment?"
"Prince-in-law, we are ministers of the Ming Dynasty, not your retainers, so why are you calling us here and there!"
Many people who were not caught by Hu Guanpa asked loudly.
If you think about it carefully, is this a question?
Maybe, but there's no guarantee that some of these questioning people were using this method to attract Hu Guan's attention.
Sure enough, this method worked.
Hu Guan, the consort, said loudly, "Are you still reasonable? I just ran to three government offices, and they were all empty! The Fifth Master has no such big thing, so don't we need manpower? Isn't it your duty?"
As he said that, he sneered and said, "I can wait, but can Fifth Master wait?"
"Hey, talk nicely!" Li Jinglong smiled and tried to smooth things over, shouting to everyone, "What the prince-in-law said is that the fifth master's affairs are important. It's not possible for him to find them one by one. Who should be in charge of these matters?"
Come out, hurry up and don’t waste your time!”
With that said, he turned to Hu Guan and said, "Do we have to go to Fengyang?"
"Look at me!" Hu Guan slapped his forehead, "I want to escort the fifth master's coffin back to Kaifeng! Hey, are the people from Taichang Temple here?"
Suddenly, I immediately thought of other things.
"Prince-in-law, I'm here!" From the hospital, two old ministers, whose faces were blue from the cold, came out tremblingly.
"You're a thief when you're old and you don't die!" Li Jinglong saw this and laughed secretly in his heart, "You're not stupid, you know it won't end well if you continue to kneel down, and you've also learned from Long Live Master's bad temper. At this time, there is nothing better than traveling far away.
What’s a good deal? Not only can you avoid the wrath of Long Live Lord, but you can also watch the events in the capital with a cold eye. It’s so damn cool!”
With a shout, a large number of officials who had been kneeling stood up, leaving a corner of the crowd in front of the Meridian Gate empty.
This caught the kneeling officials off guard, and the crowd began to commotion.
Suddenly, the sound of horse hooves came again.
Everyone looked around and saw that the Prince Consort Mei Yin jumped off his horse with his riding whip, and he cursed with raised eyebrows, "Where are the people from Taipu Temple? Where are the people? Where are they? It has been snowing heavily these days, and the racecourse on the outskirts of Beijing
Don’t want your horse anymore?”
Cursing, he walked among the kneeling officials and continued to shout loudly, "Seeing that the New Year is approaching, the emperor wants to worship heaven and ancestors and pay homage to the Xiaoling Mausoleum. You don't care about the car. You will let the emperor hold his legs when the time comes, right?"
"If you can do it, if you can't do it, I'll tell the emperor to replace him. Is there any other shortage of officials in the Ming Dynasty?"
In the past, if Mei Yin dared to speak like this, the civil servants would have said nothing if they didn't point out his ancestors. But today, few of these civil servants dare to refute.
The official who was supposed to be in charge of the errand stood up with his head downcast and sighed helplessly, hiding his face and left.
"Ah!"
Li Jinglong walked to a secluded place and said to He Guangyi, who was watching the excitement, "Look, as soon as the steps come up, you should get down as fast as you can, for fear of being too late!"
He Guangyi snorted coldly, "What do you think they want? They knelt and made trouble all night, and then they broke up?"
"What else?" Li Jinglong said with a smile, "You, you are not a civil servant, you don't understand their thoughts. You can adapt to the wind, understand?" He said, sighing, "They know how to kneel and cannot make the Long Live Lord surrender, but this
This is the attitude they must express, and it is also a way for Long Live Lord to see their hearts."
"Actually, no matter whether Long Live the Lord sees them or not, their goal has been achieved. Let's see, wait until tomorrow...at most the day after tomorrow, and the statements against the New Deal will be like snowflakes! Long speeches citing classics, that's what they are doing
Where’s the backup plan!”
"They make a fuss first, and then they make a fuss locally. That's what makes a big fuss..."
He Guangyi heard this and didn't say anything for a long time. "I don't understand!" He turned around and left, "I'm going to arrest someone!"
"Hey!" Li Jinglong shouted at his back, "Don't do anything, talk to me!"
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At this moment, another group of people came outside the Meridian Gate.
It was Jie Jin who led a group of people and shouted to the officials who were still kneeling, "Everyone, the Yingtian Times has been closed for two days, and people in the streets are scolding us for not doing business!"
"You also threw away the compilation of ancient and modern books and the history of the Yuan Dynasty?"
Among the kneeling officials, some stood up again.
Then came another burst of horseshoes, and Wei Guogong Xu Huizu rushed over angrily.
Rarely, he shouted to the officials, "Where are the people from the Ministry of War and Ministry of Industry? The New Year is about to come, so you won't do the calculation of rewards for the border armies? Have you eaten the supplies that should be allocated?"
"The soldiers have been counting on these things throughout the year to celebrate the New Year! You kneel here, and the soldiers are hungry over there! You kneel for one day, and the soldiers have to wait for ten days!"
"Do you still need the morale of the army? What if those stupid young men who are detained at the same time cause trouble and mutiny because the reward is late, who will bear the responsibility! Go on your errands quickly, do you want to go? I will let the people from the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion
, just step in and take care of it!”
There was a crash, and more than twenty officials stood up, turned around and left.
Other things can be postponed, but this matter cannot be postponed. It does not mean that the care and rewards of the soldiers cannot be postponed, but the matter of taking power. Now it is difficult to get these accounting, auditing and allocating materials rights from the Fifth Army Governor's Office.
If you let them take it back, won't everyone become empty-headed pen bearers and settlers?
"Haha!" Li Jinglong stood in the corner and sneered.
The next second, he suddenly understood.
"Is there anyone left in the Ministry of Rites? Where are the people from my vassal academy? Where are the people from Honglu Temple and Shangbao Temple?" Li Jinglong said loudly with a bluster, "The Burmese King is about to come to Beijing, won't the etiquette be established? By then, won't the etiquette be established?
If you let foreign vassals look down on our great dynasty, you will be eternal sinners!"
"The Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Ministry of Punishment... Dali Temple..." Bao Zhao also appeared outside the Meridian Gate, "It's the end of the year, aren't the backlogged cases from various places being tried? Are the lists of executed prisoners reported by various states not being checked?
?”
Just like that, amid the commotion and chaos, the hundreds of kneeling officials dispersed one by one.
In front of the Meridian Gate in Nuoda, there were only some tributes from the Imperial Academy and young and stubborn officials kneeling.
But the momentum is no longer what it used to be.
Bao Zhao, wearing a cloak, walked up to several young scholars whose lips were blue from the cold and their eyebrows were covered with frost. He frowned and asked, "Which yamen are you from?"
A young scholar raised his hands and said, "Sir, I am a tribute scholar of the Imperial Academy, and I am a native of Pingyang, Zhejiang..."
Gongshi refers to people recommended by the local government for further studies in the Imperial College, preparing to take part in the Spring Examination, and even the imperial examination in the future.
Although it is also a person-raising, his kind of raising people is definitely higher than ordinary people-raising, and it is more precious.
"You little Gongshi, are you following other people's mischief?" Bao Zhao said angrily.
"If you are born late, you will be a tribute scholar and you will be an official. If you are a scholar, you will care about the world and serve all the people..."
"When you wear my second-grade official uniform, why don't you talk about doing it for the people of the world!" Bao Zhao reprimanded, "Spring is coming, if you don't study hard and follow others to make noises, you are clearly not prioritizing. You are biased.
If you believe what others say, you are obviously out of your mind!"
Bao Zhao became more and more angry as he talked, and said loudly, "It's okay if you don't have a brain, but you still think you are so smart, and you are just a scholar when you open your mouth and keep silent. How about you? For a tribute like you, the book will be read into the dog's belly! Even if
Even if you have talent, you have no virtue. Even if someone like you wins the national examination, you will not be a good official in the future!"
"Sir, why are you insulting me?" In an instant, the scholars became angry.
"Ah ha!" Baozhao smiled, "Okay, I can't control you, I'll find someone who can!" After saying that, he shouted to the distance, "Xie Bachelor, Xie Bachelor?"
Xie Jin stepped half into the palace gate, and turned around when he heard the sound, "What's the matter?"
"Here are a few tributes from Imke, come and take a look... remember their faces!" Baozhao said loudly, "Tell me, what are your names?"
This chapter has been completed!