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Chapter 616 The lower officials invite you to eat meat!

If you want to be noble in front of others, you must suffer in the future. This sentence is what Shi Dana repeatedly reminded his two sons before his death. Shi Dana, whose original surname was Asina, was originally Turkic Tel. He followed Luo Khan into the Sui Dynasty. Because of his bravery, he stayed in the Central Plains and later attacked Liaodong from Emperor Yang of Sui.

After the rebellion of Jinyang, he surrendered to the Duke of Tang Li Yuan, followed him to pacify Chang'an and gave him the surname Shi. He also followed the King of Qin Li Shimin to fight against Xue Ju, Wang Shichong, Dou Jiande, and Liu Heita, and made great contributions. In the early years of Zhenguan, he was promoted to the General of the Right Wuwei Guard. After the victory of the Northern Expedition, he was appointed as the governor of Fengzhou and was promoted to Duke of Dou. In the tenth year of Zhenguan, he died in office and was posthumously awarded the title of General of the Supplementary State and buried in Tancheng.

When his father was alive, Li Shimin intended to let their brother Shang Princess because he was an old minister in the "Western Palace". However, as his father passed away, everyone mentioned this matter. However, the two of them did not suffer much influence in their careers. His brother did a pretty good job in Chang'an, and when he got to be a fifth-rank governor, it was considered good. He was content with people. Shi Renji felt that he was doing well.

Many Turkic people surrendered to the Tang Dynasty. Ahn Nasheer, He Li, and Zhi Wu Si Li all became high-ranking officials, but only they knew what their lives were like. They basically had empty positions and did not even force them to go to court. This shows how much this official has been.

Their Shishi family worked in Xifu as early as when the army was raised in Jinyang. They were retainers of the Li Tang royal family. Emperor Taiwu also specially gave the Han surname to show that they were accepted by China. There is a saying by the Han people that if they were not our clan, their hearts would be different. If the Shishi family had not surrendered early and won the trust of the royal family, the fate might not have been forced to go there.

Although Shi Renji feels good, there are also things that are not going well. Take the things that cost a little more this year as an example. If you want relief, you say wait. If you spend spring sowing money, you still have to be happy. If the people are hungry, they can do anything. We are doing this for the sake of the court. Now we are not doing it.

Dou Kuan is the Minister of the Ministry of Integrity, and Wei Zheng is famous for Wei Bapi. It would be difficult to spread one of them. Now he sent both great gods to Ningzhou together. What is the difference between this and killing people directly?

After Wei Zheng's investigation, Shi Renji did exchange all the food in his hand for 100,000 stones of rotten grains that no one had eaten. Moreover, all the bureaucrats and people from Ningzhou below lived on this. When the court supplies arrived, the people in the whole province had been hungry for three days.

Wei Zheng originally wanted to dismiss him on the spot, but Dou Kuan, who was not interested, refuted him because he did not own the public funds in exchange for the government affairs of the people, and it was urgent to provide relief to the people. Therefore, Wei Zheng, who was full of anger, became more and more determined. He had to rely on the relief to end the relief, and then he took the "official" lock for the food to be replaced by the "official" lock for the livestock to eat.

Ningzhou Prefecture - Houtang, today is different. Wei Zheng and Dou Kuan sat waiting for lunch. They both received an invitation early this morning, saying that Shi Renji wanted to invite them to a big meal today, and then they went to Beijing for trial tomorrow, so Wei Zheng's stubborn donkey could calm down and wait here.

Seeing Shi Renji serving three big bowls of meat, Dou Kuan frowned and stretched out. Damn, he finally got to eat meat. I have been hungry and weight loss these days. After picking up the chopsticks and eating a piece, a golden light flashed in Dou Kuan's eyes, and then pointed at Shi Renji with the chopsticks and scolded, "Hey, I said Shi Renji, you are not kind, you don't know if you have meat to come out. Do you want to take revenge on me from the food?

You are really a heartless person. I gave this material very timely. The Buddha said that saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda. You said that how many lives I saved? If this is more serious, this tower would have leaked the sky!"

Dou Kuan's inconvenience attracted Wei Zheng's cold snorting and rolling eyes. He really couldn't understand why the prince valued such vulgar people alone. He kept talking and talking swear words, and he didn't have the demeanor of an important official at all.

Compared to Wei Zheng's disdain, Shi Renji was full of gratitude to the Minister of Integrity and the imperial envoy sent by the imperial court to provide full-time relief. This was not only because he prevented Wei Zheng from arresting him, but more importantly, he gave him enough trust to give him enough time to arrange all the relief and spring farming in Ningzhou. It was a good start and ending. He still understood the principle of serving as an official and benefiting the people. He had forgotten his last wish in the past ten days.

"Shangshu Dou, Ningzhou is poor, and the lower officials are also poor, so there is no good thing to entertain the two of you. It's really rude. The lower officials apologize to the two of you here." After saying that, he bowed to Dou Kuan and the others, and then sat down generously, and called Wei Zheng and the others to eat while it was hot, otherwise it would be bad if it was cold.

While eating, Dou Kuan asked curiously: "Hey, this is not right. Ling Zun is the minister of Yuan Congzhi. You kid gave a marquis and gave him a marquis. How could you say that you are a poor official? Why don't you dare to tell the truth in front of me, the Minister of Integrity, because I'm afraid I will investigate you!"

The title of the Tang Dynasty was not valuable when it was founded. At that time, any one who had been associated with Emperor Taiwu was not a duke, but a marquis was not a big deal. But since entering Zhenguan, the emperor had eliminated many people's titles after several eliminations, and re-established the standard for rewards. Even a viscount is a popular commodity now.

Take Dou Kuan as an example. The emperor rewarded Yong'an Bo, which really made many civil officials envious. He could take on the four words "prosperous achievements" and never saw everyone awarded titles. He himself knew that from titles to official positions, it was rewarded by the prince. Otherwise, how could such a good thing be his turn? Could it be that he could not find a more suitable official in the court?

After hearing Dou Kuan's words, Shi Renji replied lightly: "Shangshu, my father was originally a surrendered general of the Turkic Republic, and he did not make much contribution when the founding of the country. He was promoted to the Duke in the fourth year of Zhenguan. Naturally, the descendants of Yan and Huang are incomparable to you. Moreover, the lower officials are the second son of the family and have no power to inherit the family business, so they are born to be poor! Come on, you must eat more today!"

Seeing Shi Renji complaining, he kept persuading him and Wei Zheng to eat meat. Dou Kuan smiled evilly, grabbed a big piece of food, then turned his head to Wei Zheng, and said with a smile: "Wei Xiang, have you eaten what kind of meat this?"

"It should be dog meat. In Ningzhou, it is not easy to have a few pieces of meat to eat. Compared with those people who can barely fill their stomachs, we are already a god-like life." Wei Zheng ate while replying listlessly, eating buns these days, his old stomach has long been sore and watery.

Haha..., after chuckling twice, Dou Kuan grinned and said, "The Prime Minister is indeed the prime minister. I don't know the sufferings of the people. Ningzhou is like this. There are still living dogs there! This Shi Renji is a bad guy. He gave us rat meat!"

As soon as Dou Kuan finished speaking, Wei Zheng began to retching. Now he understood that Shi Renji is a bad guy, but Dou Kuan is even a bad person. He didn't say it earlier after I ate it half a bowl before he said it was really like this. People who are so bad can do such a thing! You know that Wei Zheng is a rat, so what's the difference between this and eating himself?
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