Chapter 1599: Forced into the palace, happy pulse, prince
Chapter 1599: Forced into the palace, happy pulse, prince
Strengthening the embankment is done almost every winter.
At this time, the Minister of the Ministry of Finance raised the issue in a grand manner, explaining that there was something very fishy inside.
Su Mingzhe didn't want to pay attention to him.
But I saw the Minister of the Ministry of Finance, who continued to play:
"Your Majesty, in fact, not only are the Changping warehouses in various places full, but the copper coins and silver dollar reserves in the imperial treasury are also insufficient..."
In the former Song Dynasty, commerce developed unprecedentedly, which resulted in insufficient copper and silver reserves.
The exchange ratio between copper coins and silver was stipulated in the early Song Dynasty that copper coins (one thousand copper coins) should be exchanged for one tael of silver.
In fact, in most places, two or even three guans of money are exchanged for one tael of silver.
In the Southern Song Dynasty, the exchange ratio was even more exaggerated. In some places, ten copper coins could be exchanged for one tael of silver.
After Su Mingzhe came to the throne, in order to solve this problem, he specially changed the system and changed the copper coins and silver ingots used by the people into copper coins and silver coins, and imposed an exchange ratio. This can be regarded as solving the urgent need.
Now that the Minister of Hubu mentioned this matter at the court meeting, Su Mingzhe squinted his eyes and looked at Prime Minister Liu Bingzhong.
Liu Bingzhong reluctantly walked out of the queue, handed over his hand and endorsed the Secretary of the Ministry of Finance:
"Your Majesty, what Uncle Taichang (Shang Shu) said is true!"
Su Mingzhe was stunned when he heard this. He didn't expect that Liu Bingzhong, a bald ass, didn't understand what he meant.
As the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Su Mingzhe naturally knew that what the Minister of Household Affairs said was true!
The problem is that this issue was not discussed at the court meeting.
After a moment of meditation, Su Mingzhe became like an old god. He closed his eyes and meditated, waiting for new situations to appear.
As expected, not long after, the Ministers of the Ministry of Industry, the Minister of Rites, and the Minister of Officials came forward one after another to discuss various issues.
These problems are all shortcomings that have been suppressed for many years and cannot be solved overnight.
Faced with this kind of memorial that was similar to forcing him into the palace, Su Mingzhe still chose to remain silent and wait for someone who wanted to jump out.
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Guo Xiang has gradually become accustomed to the life of being the 'Concubine Chen'.
Although Su Mingzhe had some fondness for Guo Xiang, he did not favor her alone.
In a month, I can only stay at Qingque Palace for seven or eight days at most.
Although she was often bullied by Su Mingzhe, Guo Xiang's smooth belly never moved.
On the contrary, it was Guo Fu. Her son had just turned one year old, and she was diagnosed with a happy pulse by the imperial doctor.
Seeing her sister's happy expression, Guo Xiang's little head was filled with questions:
"Sister, giving birth is so dangerous and painful, why are you so happy to be pregnant and have a baby?"
"You will understand after you get pregnant and give birth to a child."
Guo Fu didn't know what to say, so she could only use one sentence to fend off her sister.
While the two sisters were chatting, Su Mingzhe strode in.
"Sister, brother-in-law is here!"
Because Guo Xiang was embarrassed that Su Mingzhe had forcibly occupied her, she had never been willing to greet Su Mingzhe in a friendly tone like her sister. Instead, she used the obviously ambiguous title of 'brother-in-law'.
How could she understand that the more she behaves like this, the more she can arouse men's interest.
"Fu'er, Xiang'er, haven't you slept yet? You're just in time to have lunch with me!"
Su Mingzhe spent the whole morning with a group of ministers, and finally broke up unhappy.
Afterwards, Liu Bingzhong and several ministers asked for a meeting, but Su Mingzhe refused directly on the grounds of lunch break.
Oh!
In recent years, Su Mingzhe has indeed been relatively lenient with ministers and has never punished him.
However, there is a premise for this, that is, the ministers did not commit taboos or make big mistakes.
Now these people dare to unite and want to force Su Mingzhe to submit:
"Do you really think I am the emperor of the Song Dynasty?"
…
Su Mingzhe was smiling, but Guo Fu and Guo Xiang could feel that the man had an aura about him.
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After the two sisters looked at each other, they got up from the bed in tacit understanding and accompanied the man to the bright hall to sit down and wait for lunch.
Not long after, three little guys, Su Qingying, Su Qingtong, and Su Qingque, also came over.
After lunch, the three little guys were led by their grandma to take a nap.
Su Mingzhe looked at the sisters Guo Fu and Guo Xiang, holding each other with one arm and about to sleep together on the big quilt.
Guo Xiang quickly stopped the man:
"Brother-in-law, my sister is unwell..."
"Not feeling well? What's wrong with Fu'er?"
Su Mingzhe sniffed his nose, but he didn't smell blood.
Seeing that Su Mingzhe had misunderstood, Guo Xiang could only say bluntly:
"The imperial doctor just came to check my sister's pulse this morning and said that she is pregnant again!"
"Are you happy again?"
Su Mingzhe's eyes when he looked at Guo Fu suddenly became gentle, and the palms that were originally squeezing the woman's shoulders became cautious:
"We're all happy, why didn't you tell me? I asked you to drink with me just now..."
"It's just a few drinks, it doesn't matter."
Guo Fu has already given birth to three children, and she is somewhat familiar with the taboos during pregnancy. She is not as worried as she was when she was pregnant with her first child.
Because Guo Fu was pregnant again, Su Mingzhe's original plan to bully the sisters could no longer be implemented.
After sleeping together with the two sisters, Su Mingzhe returned to the imperial study at the end of the day.
Liu Bingzhong, a bald donkey, had a portion of the golden fried rice from the imperial dining room for lunch, so he came here to wait. When he saw Su Mingzhe arriving, he quickly stepped forward to accuse him.
"Let's talk inside!"
Su Mingzhe has experienced many things and has long passed the stage of being vigorous and resolute.
The minister wanted to compete with him for his patience, but he found the wrong person.
Entering the imperial study, Liu Bingzhong confessed again:
"I am guilty..."
"What is the crime of the Prime Minister?"
Su Mingzhe sat on the dragon chair, took a sip of tea, spit out a piece of tea leaf, and began to miss the purple clay pot in his previous life.
"I should not consult privately with other people and conceal His Majesty's secrets, thus committing the crime of deceiving the Majesty..."
Liu Bingzhong was quite honest and told the story about the connection between the ministers of the DPRK and China.
The core of this incident was actually instigated by the Prince of the East Palace.
Liu Bingzhong was the prince's teacher. The prince asked him to keep it secret, but he did not dare to disobey the prince's wishes.
Because things are involved, we have to start from last year.
At that time, Su Mingzhe asked Liu Bingzhong to receive a memorial titled "Ten Years' Lessons", which resulted in Liu Bingzhong being nicknamed "the emperor's lackey" and "the prime minister who was crimped".
Originally, Liu Bingzhong had a strong heart and didn't care about these gossips.
However, there was no stopping many people from speaking ill of Liu Bingzhong in front of Prince Su Hui.
Prince Su Hui was young and could not distinguish right from wrong. As more and more people spoke ill of Liu Bingzhong, he really had a prejudice against Liu Bingzhong.
Liu Bingzhong knew that Su Mingzhe was quite satisfied with the prince Su Hui and had never thought of changing the prince.
Therefore, when Prince Su Hui had objections to him, Liu Bingzhong was frightened.
This time, Prince Su Hui personally told Liu Bingzhong to keep it secret. How could Liu Bingzhong dare to violate it?
"This little brat has really grown up!"
Su Mingzhe learned that the mastermind behind the imperial conquest was actually the prince Su Hui. For a moment, Su Mingzhe was so angry that he couldn't laugh or cry.
Liu Bingzhong saw that the emperor didn't seem to be very angry, so he smiled bitterly and said:
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is indeed wise and wise. All the veterans...are..."
"That's it, that's it!"
Su Mingzhe knew what Liu Bingzhong wanted to say, so he waved his hands, sighed, and then said:
"Since the prince wants to do something, I, as a father, can't stop him. Let's go to the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of War, and tell me that I will go to Chengde one month early this year..."