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Chapter 518: A Different Couple (Part 1)

The clouds gathered and the rain dissipated, everything calmed down, Han Jian got up and put on his clothes. Yang Rui also got up and hurriedly put on his clothes.

Yang Rui, who is in the bedroom on weekdays, is not too restrictive, and she has the style of a mistress in her family. Yang Ronger is like a younger sister who never grows up next door. But when she arrives in a place like Ye'an Pavilion, no matter how hard her psychological quality is, she can't hide her face. After a long time, her cheeks were still rosy and could not dissipate for a long time.

Han Jian dressed much faster than Yang Rui. After that, he watched Yang Rui sit on the desk and put on his clothes and began to tidy up his hair.

Originally, Yang Rui's hair was very neat, and Huier would tie her hair up every day. Although she was nominally alone, she had to maintain her demeanor, so she never came out easily.

But this time it was different, because it was too "extreme" just now, which made Yang Rui's hair messy and had to be taken apart and reorganized. It seems that Yang Rui is not very good at this, after all, she doesn't do these things by herself on weekdays.

"It looks pretty, no need to do it." Han Jian said with a smile.

Yang Rui gave Han Jian a blank look, his hands still raised above his head to tidy up his hair, but he could only use a hairpin to simply fix his hair, and said, "It's all your fault. I told you to take care of it, but you don't have any pity. You can't let Huier come to help me organize it, I really don't know how to go back."

Han Jian smiled and said, "I think it looks good when I do it on weekdays. Why do I make my hair fancy? Isn't it better to be simple?"

Yang Rui said angrily: "I am just a woman in front of you. But in the eyes of others, I am the lord of a country after all. Have you ever seen the lord of a country go out so simply and carelessly? Oh, let's not talk about it, hurry back soon, so as not to be troubled by you here again."

After Yang Rui said this, Han Jian walked forward instead. Yang Rui felt the smile on Han Jian's face with bad intentions. When he turned his head, he saw Han Jian kicking Yang Rui's shoes and socks scattered on the ground. The shoes and socks all reached the corner.

"Bold King Dong. What are you doing?" Yang Rui suddenly shouted.

Suddenly, I felt that my shouting sound was too loud, which would attract the attention of the eunuchs and palace maids outside. What would these people feel if they came in and saw her so disheveled and not even wearing shoes and socks on the desk?

"Your Majesty thinks you want to do what you want to do." Han Jian retreated aside and said with a smile.

"You are really a bad person. Come on," Yang Rui said with a stern face.

Han Jian spread his hands, smiling, as if saying, "What can I do to me if I don't treat you?"

Yang Rui tried to think about going to the ground. On the one hand, she liked to be clean and the ground was a little dirty, and she was not convenient to walk with her bare ankles. On the other hand, the place was too cold. She was very clear about the impact of coldness on her feet on her body. She was afraid that this would make her body's qi deficiency worsen.

In this way, she could only sit on the main table and be anxious.

"Good husband, I'm wrong. I shouldn't blame you. Husband, so I understand that I'm in poor health and can't catch a cold. Can I help me take it over?" Yang Rui had no choice but to plead softly.

"Oh? Rui'er, you have great magical powers. You have to help your husband with this little thing? I'm afraid you have something else to do?" Han Jian pretended to be cautious and said.

"What else do you want?" Yang Rui was really angry and embarrassed, but Han Jian couldn't do anything, so he could only sigh, "I'll go down to the ground, and I'll be sick at that time. I'll go there earlier, so as not to be tormented by you, a bad guy."

As he said that, Yang Rui really made a gesture to jump off the desk. Han Jian subconsciously stepped forward and supported her, saying, "Rui'er, why are you so unthinkable? Just kidding, you'll be bad if you really get sick."

When he saw Yang Rui with a sly smile on his face, Han Jian knew that Yang Rui was just making a fool of himself and attracted him.

"Husband, I'm caught by me now, let's see how you run away." Yang Rui held Han Jian's wrist tightly, and Han Jian could only sigh, who said that his martial arts skills were not as high as others?

"Rui'er, if you don't let go, how can I get it for you?" Han Jian sighed.

Yang Rui then let go and said, "Since you are caring for me, don't bother to do anything. I have to go back and rest early. Last night, I thought that my husband wouldn't come to the palace and I had a bad rest. I was even more tired after being tossed by me again."

Han Jian smiled, took his shoes and socks over, and helped Yang Rui put them on himself.

As an emperor, it was normal for Yang Rui to be served and dressed and shoes, but when she saw Han Jian lowering her body and putting socks and shoes on her, she was also a little moved. She knew very well that even if the men of this era were respectful to the king in the court, they could not be so humble in front of her wife when they returned home.

But Han Jian just thought this was a simple way to enhance the relationship between husband and wife, and did not feel what it was.

After all, the two have a generation gap of thoughts for more than a thousand years, so it is normal for Yang Rui not to understand Han Jian. But Yang Rui was even more moved in his heart. In addition to shyness, he also had a little more happiness in his smile.

"Okay, I think it's apologizing for my husband." Han Jian stood up and said, "I won't send Rui'er, you into the bedroom. I'll leave the palace earlier, and I still have some things to do."

"Yeah." Yang Rui remembered the main purpose of Han Jian entering the palace and asked again, "Then how are you going to deal with the people on this list? Should you continue to check it, or do it immediately?"

Han Jian sighed: "Some things should not be too rush, but someone needs to do this. I will ask the person in charge of the investigation to set up a special yamen and take some people down for the first trial to see if there will be any progress."

Yang Rui got off the desk, sat back on the chair, thought for a while and said, "Don't move too much. After all, the military affairs will be in a big way and the impact will be great, and even you may not be able to control it."

Han Jian nodded with a smile and said, "Rui'er, don't worry, I know how to do it for my husband?"

When Yang Rui heard Han Jian say business, he still said in such a frivolous tone. He couldn't help but smile and said, "Then you go earlier. Don't let me down."

Han Jian stepped forward and kissed Yang Rui before turning around and leaving.

When Han Jian arrived at the palace gate, he was about to go out, but he saw a group of people squatting in the corner of the wall. When he saw that he was wearing court uniforms, he did not have the style of becoming an official.

Han Jian looked familiar with these officials, but he was not very familiar with them. But judging from the color and standard of their official uniforms, they were all middle-level officials of the fourth and fifth ranks. Han Jian didn't know what they came to the palace gate to do, because these people were all officials and did not hit the access control, so even the guards at the palace gate did not react, and just let them squat in the corner.

"What's going on?" Han Jian asked the guard foreman on the side.

"Young Master, these people have been here for a while. They came soon after you entered the palace. They first asked if they could enter the palace. Then they seemed to be waiting for someone there. Without the instructions from the young master, it was not easy to drive people away." The guards foreman felt a little embarrassed.

Han Jian looked at it and said that more of these new officials should have taken office, because at the palace banquet, Han Jian didn't remember meeting all of these people. But when he thought about it, maybe some people were low-key and did not attract their own attention.

He should have sent someone to ask clearly, but he felt that something was wrong. But after he entered the palace, these people came, without any standing or sitting posture at all. If he deliberately attracted his attention and waited for him to come forward and it would be bad for him.

"Send someone to drive people away." Han Jian said.

"Yes, young master."

The guard leader was obliged to go out to drive out people, but he saw a sedan chair coming from afar, but it was Ning Yuan.

When Han Jian thought about what Ning Yuan had reported to Yang Rui before, he wanted to ask, but he wanted to turn around and ask Yang Rui, so he delayed it. This time he went to the palace to talk about the things he did in detail in the army, and he forgot about this matter. If he hadn't seen Ning Yuan, he wouldn't have remembered it.

Han Jian was about to step forward, but he saw those who had been squatting in the corner of the wall before, facing Ning Yuan ahead of him.

Ning Yuan was also celebrating these people, as if he knew each other.

Han Jian then walked forward and not far from Ning Yuan's body. Ning Yuan also discovered Han Jian's existence and immediately stepped forward to see him.

"Shangshu Ning, what's going on?" Han Jian pointed to the official behind Ning Yuan who was still pointing fingers.

"When I returned to the Eastern King, the old minister reported to Your Majesty before, saying that he was preparing to absorb a group of new officials into the court. Your Majesty was allowed to allow him. These people were the ones the old minister found for Your Majesty." Ning Yuan replied respectfully.

"Who are these?" Han Jian asked with a frown.

He always felt that something was wrong. These people did not look like ordinary court officials, because the most important thing for court officials was to maintain etiquette, but these people did not.

"When you go back to Your Highness, some have served as officials in the palace earlier, while others have... just donated officials." Ning Yuan said with some evasion.

"Donate the official?" Han Jian was even more puzzled.

In the Wei Dynasty, although there were still private matters of donating officials and buying officials, they were all very close things. Even if there were, they would not be taken to the table. However, he observed Ning Yuan's reaction, this matter was not a big secret.

Ning Yuan said: "This is still the matter of the past year. The treasury is empty. This... the rebel minister relieves the pressure on the treasury by donating officials. Now that Your Majesty returns to the court and the thief goes north, the treasury is still very serious. The old minister asks Your Majesty for donating officials. Your Majesty agrees, saying that he will find some people to see first, and if it is appropriate, then implement it. Isn't your highness going to the palace this time to discuss this matter with Your Majesty?"

Han Jianxin said that Yang Rui really likes to hide it, and accepted it without discussing it with him. If the precedent of donating officials was opened, will the officialdom in Luoyang be in chaos?

But Han Jian saw again that these officials were only third and fourth rank court uniforms, which means that they did not involve the core of power. In other words, Yang Rui's main purpose of agreeing to this matter was to help him share his worries, and he did not mean to deliberately conceal him.

"Is Shangshu Ning going to go to the palace to see Your Majesty?" Han Jian asked.

"That's right." Ning Yuan said, "The old minister told His Majesty before that he would bring these people into the palace after noon, so the old minister would not send him to His Highness."

When Han Jian thought, Yang Rui was nervous in Ye'an Pavilion before, probably because he thought that someone would come later, so he was so urgent that he asked him to finish it quickly. He also said that he would go back to the inner palace to rest, and that he wanted to send him away earlier so that Ning Yuan could bring these people into the palace to face the saint.

Han Jian approached and asked, "To be honest, how much money did you give?"

Ning Yuan whispered: "Go back to Your Highness, if you calculate, these people will have more than 100,000 taels of silver. If the matter passes from Your Majesty, the silver... will be transferred to the treasury and pay the court officials first."

After hearing more than 100,000 taels, Han Jianxin said that the money of these big families is easy to make. Just selling a few officials can get more than 100,000 taels of silver. If you sell a few more, won’t you solve the financial crisis of the court?

Han Jian thought again, Ning Yuan said that he would pay the money to the court officials first, so he knew why Yang Rui wanted to hide it, because Han Jian was nervous about food and salary for military supplies, but Yang Rui had his own set to solve the problem of the tax burden of the court officials first. This was clearly Yang Rui was intending to win people's hearts.

"Let's go, I will come to the palace with you to meet the holy people." Han Jian said.

“…uh, the old minister obeys the order.”

Ning Yuan was a little confused. He didn't know the key point at all, so he thought that Han Jian wanted to discuss this with the Queen with him. He felt that it was nothing.

Of course, he didn't know that Yang Rui had not informed Han Jian of this.

On the way to Ye'an Pavilion with Ning Yuan, Han Jian asked Ning Yuan in detail about the details of this matter. Ning Yuan is now in a situation where he is unable to protect himself, so he is also quite flattering to Han Jian, which is very clear about him.

Han Jian couldn't help but feel a little angry at Yang Rui. When he arrived at the gate of Ye'an Pavilion, he saw Yang Rui coming from the direction of the bedroom, but he changed into another piece of clothing and had his hair tidyed up. He must have been in the bedroom and repaired it before coming out.

When Yang Rui saw Han Jian and Ning Yuan entering the palace together, he also guessed the problem in his heart. He waved his hand first, let the palace maids and eunuchs be outside, and then went to Han Jian and Ning Yuan.

"See Your Majesty." Han Jian and Ning Yuan saluted at the same time.

"Dongwang, aren't you important things to go out of the palace to do? Why are you back?"

Han Jian replied stiffly: "Didn't your Majesty also say you want to go back to the inner bedroom to rest?"

Yang Rui frowned, and Han Jian said this in front of Ning Yuan. She could feel that Han Jian probably knew the whole story and was angry about it.

Yang Rui didn't say much, turned around and went up the steps in front of Ye'an Pavilion. When he arrived at the door, he greeted him: "You two come in."

"yes."

Han Jian and Ning Yuan entered Ye'an Pavilion one by one. At this time, Ye'an Pavilion was still a little messed up because of the "efficacy" between Han Jian and Yang Rui. The pens, inkstones that Han Jian moved away were not too late to clean up before Yang Rui returned to the bedroom, and was still in the place where it shouldn't be.

Yang Rui was a little unnatural at first, then turned his head and glared at Han Jian, then sat down at the desk, and looked up at Han Jian and Ning Yuan.

"Shangshu Ning, everyone is outside?" Yang Rui asked.

"Yes." Ning Yuan replied respectfully, "The old minister has brought everyone here and waited outside the hall. Your Majesty can pass on him at any time."

"I'll see you for the time being. Shangshu Ning will go outside and wait. I will discuss an important matter with the King of the East first, and I will see these people later." Yang Rui said.

"Yes, the old minister follows the order."

Ning Yuan exited the door, and the door was still open, Han Jian stood there, looking at Yang Rui.

Yang Rui sighed: "Even if you want to say, go and close the door first." (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!

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