After Zhang Zicheng finished speaking, Cui Feng then said: "I have heard about the plague, and I think it is nonsense."
As an imperial physician, Cui Feng had a high say in the plague.
At this time, Cui Feng began to explain the signs of the plague using scriptures, saying that given the current situation in Chang'an City, it was impossible for the plague to occur. The remarks of Muchuan, the Minister of Household Affairs, only caused panic.
"Your Majesty, please be wise, but don't listen to what the Minister of the Ministry of Finance says!"
After finishing speaking, Cui Feng knelt on the ground seriously, showing a loyal look.
Seeing Cui Feng like this, Li Shimin couldn't bear it! What's more, there was the Taiwei's investigative testimony before, so Li Shimin felt that Muchuan's remarks seemed a bit "unfounded".
"I understand, let's put aside the matter of plague prevention!"
Li Shimin opened his mouth and made a decision.
After Zhang Zicheng and Cui Feng heard this, they both bowed and shouted: "Your Majesty, your Majesty, long live my emperor."
Two hours later, the sun was shining brightly, and an atmosphere of joy filled the residence of the Minister of Civil Affairs.
In the main hall of the mansion, Hou Junji, Zhang Zicheng, and Cui Feng were gathered together. There were rich meats and fine wines in front of the table, and they were celebrating and having fun with the wine.
As for why the three of them are so happy?
It's also simple, because they successfully made Li Shimin cancel Muchuan's advice!
Hou Junji waved his wide sleeves and said coldly: "This Muchuan is really arrogant. He actually openly spoke about the plague in the court. Doesn't he want to make the entire Gyeonggi Province panic?
I don’t know what evil intentions he is hiding!”
Cui Feng: "Mu Chuan is not worth mentioning. He is just a little person who pretends to be clever and shows off his knowledge. If he hadn't been appreciated by the emperor, he wouldn't have achieved what he has today! He just got lucky."
Zhang Zicheng: "Fortunately, the Emperor is wise, otherwise I would have listened to what this Muchuan boy said, and it would have harmed the country and made the people unable to live in peace!"
The three people criticized each other loudly and shared the same hatred.
In fact, the relationship between the three of them was not so good before. The reason why they are sitting together today is entirely because of Muchuan.
Hou Junji himself did not like Muchuan. After all, Muchuan had made him lose face again and again, and even publicly humiliated him in the court.
The reason why Zhang Zicheng targeted Muchuan was because Muchuan was too high-profile and had already become the Minister of Household Affairs at such a young age. This official position was higher than his own!
The most important thing is that the Ministry of Household Affairs led by Muchuan has carried out many reforms of economic laws, which has invisibly leveraged Zhang Zicheng's interests. If Muchuan is allowed to continue like this, I am afraid that some of Zhang Zicheng's dirty things will be dug out by the other party.
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For this reason, Zhang Zicheng naturally targeted Muchuan at every turn to curb his influence in the court.
Cui Feng, who was the imperial physician, had no contact with Muchuan at all, and at his age, he was not even jealous of Muchuan.
The reason why I accompanied Zhang Zicheng to appeal to the Holy Emperor this time was entirely because of my sense of responsibility as an imperial physician!
plague?
You must know that there are credible signs of the plague, and it is not the so-called "intuitive" judgment of Muchuan! If you act as willfully as Muchuan did, it will only cause losses to the entire country, and this is naturally something Cui Feng cannot tolerate.
The three of them were sitting together with different purposes at this time, celebrating because Muchuan's decree was cancelled.
On the other side is the residence of the Minister of Revenue.
Ouyang Yifan rushed in wearing an official robe and said as he ran: "My lord! It's not good!"
Muchuan was trying "beer" in the inner hall.
In fact, "beer" is very popular in modern times, and most modern people think that this thing was born only after the 19th century.
This is not the case, beer was already born in 6,000 BC!
The Sumerians in ancient Greece had learned to use barley malt to brew beer as early as 6,000 BC.
In 400 AD, beer was already spread throughout Europe, and the types were very rich, such as dark beer, honey beer, light beer, etc., and their types were no less than today.
So if Muchuan wants to drink beer, he only needs to rush to Europe to drink the most fresh and traditional beer.
The problem is that it is impossible to run from Chang'an City to Europe and Great Britain in less than a few months.
For this reason, Muchuan developed his own beer! As a modern person, it is not like he didn't know the recipe of beer. He used wheat malt and barley malt as raw materials. After liquidization, saccharification and fermentation, beer was naturally formed.
The only drawback is that there are no hops!
It was not easy to obtain "hops" in Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty, and this substance was one of the key auxiliary ingredients in beer. Therefore, the purity of the beer produced by Muchuan was not enough.
But it doesn't matter, this kind of semi-finished beer can at least make Muchuan enjoy himself in this hot climate.
At this time, Ouyang Yifan came to the inner hall. When he was about to say something important, he obviously smelled the smell of beer, so he curiously asked: "It smells good, what is this smell?"
"This is beer."
You should know that having fun alone is not as good as having fun together. Muchuan was worried that no one would share the taste of this beer with him, and Ouyang Yifan just happened to show up, which was just right.
Muchuan waved to Ouyang Yifan: "Come on, let me give you a glass of beer to try!"
Ouyang Yifan's mouth watered when he smelled the taste. Later, he took a glass of beer and drank it in one gulp.
The warm and cool liquid flowed down the throat and into the stomach, reverberating like the nectar in heaven, resounding in the heart and shaking the soul. After drinking it, Ouyang Yifan couldn't help but sigh from the bottom of his heart: "It tastes so good!"
"Haha, does it taste good?
It took me a lot of time to make this beer.”
"Sir, it turns out this is called beer. It is truly a delicacy in the world!"
Ouyang Yifan licked his tongue and wanted to ask for another drink.
Muchuan was also generous, since there was a lot of beer anyway, so he pointed to a jar of wine placed in the corner of the inner hall and said that it was all beer. If Ouyang Yifan wanted to drink it, he could fill it himself.
Ouyang Yifan nodded repeatedly, his face full of joy: "Thank you, sir! Then I'm welcome!"
Just as Ouyang Yifan was enjoying himself with a cup of wine, he suddenly remembered the business he had come to do today!
"Oh my Lord, it's true that you made me forget His Majesty's instructions while talking to you!"
"It's my fault again. It's obvious that you were greedy for this beer and forgot about things."
Muchuan snorted coldly and asked what Ouyang Yifan's so-called business was.
At that moment, Ouyang Yifan explained that the matter of "plague" had been dismissed by Li Shimin.
