Bai Shan stretched out his hand to hold her hand and said with a smile, "Let's go back to the house too."
Manbao held hands with him and went back.
The two of them simply washed up. Man Bao lay on the bed and flipped through a calendar, "Grandma said she would give you a crown replacement gift. What date do you think would be best to choose?"
Bai Shan also lay beside her to read, and after flipping through several pages, he said, "I haven't been able to do it for the past few days. Just before I left the palace, Lord Gu sent someone to tell me quietly that your Majesty will draft a decree tomorrow, and I'm afraid something big will happen."
He paused and then said: "Besides, the Liaodong incident still has some tail-ends that need to be sorted out. I'm afraid I won't be able to spare the time in the next ten or twenty days, and neither will the people in the court."
"It will be Chinese New Year soon."
Bai Shan smiled and said, "Why don't we go with your birthday gift?"
Man Bao: "Should I celebrate my birthday or celebrate your birthday?"
Moreover, Man Bao turned nineteen this year, so it was not a grand occasion. She just had longevity noodles in the morning and her relatives and friends had a meal.
Bai Shan thought for a while and then smiled and said, "How about the day before your birthday?"
Man Bao glanced at him and asked, "Do you want to ask for leave?"
Bai Shan nodded repeatedly and said, "Guanli has a holiday."
The Jin Dynasty is so humane. The coming-of-age ceremony is a great gift, so when a man is crowned, the students in the middle school have study leave, and the officials in the court have official leave. Anyway, they have holidays, and they can be approved as soon as they apply.
Thinking of the hard work over the past few months, Bai Shan couldn't help but feel excited, "We haven't stopped bathing for a long time."
He came closer, half pressing on her, and said in a low voice: "Don't you want to rest?"
Man Bao was really moved and nodded repeatedly. He was just a little worried, "Can I also ask for leave?"
Bai Shan thought for a while and then said: "I'll invite you."
So Bai Shan was always ready to ask for leave the next day when he went to the Yamen. He thought that the emperor must be happy recently, and maybe he would agree to it if he was happy to ask for it now.
Who knew that after he entered the palace early the next morning, the emperor called him to draft an edict, but he was demoted twice in a row.
Bai Shan carefully looked at the decree he had just written. One of them was Gong Yan, the fifth-rank minister of the Hanlin Academy. Bai Shan thought about it and knew that Gong Yan was his superior's superior when he was in the Hanlin Academy. He
He was directly transferred to the local area to serve as a county magistrate.
There is another person who is the servant of Menxia Province, Mr. Ban Xin Ban.
There were two servants in the province under the command, who were of the third rank, and were only below Master Wei. He was already the leader of the country, but he was directly demoted to Shangzhou as the magistrate.
Bai Shan watched quietly, and intuitively felt that this was not because of the problem of logistics and food for the Zhengdong Campaign. They all knew that in the Zhengdong Campaign, the logistics problems were mainly local.
In some places, it is customary to block the sky with one hand and intercept passing grain, grass and medicinal materials. This causes the grain, grass and medicinal materials to be delayed in reaching the front line.
On the way back to the court, the emperor had ordered Zhao Guogong to take all these local officials with him. At this time, many of them were in prison and they had not had time to investigate. The emperor would not be in such a hurry to deal with them.
Moreover, these two decrees did not give specific reasons for their demotion. They only said that they had sinister intentions, followed the trend, and disregarded the stability of the country for their own selfish interests.
If Bai Shan had not participated in the entire battle of Liaodong, we would almost suspect that these two adults secretly colluded with Goguryeo to betray the Jin Dynasty.
But when I think about it carefully, it seems very impossible. What are they planning?
Unless they were seeking wealth, Goguryeo would be able to spend money to bribe them.
Bai Shan was moved when he thought of this, but he still drafted the edict conscientiously, and then sent the edict to the Menxia Province for review.
Bai Shan stopped in Menxiasheng, bypassed the nearest office, and personally handed a stack of official documents to Wei Zhi's office.
There were a lot of official documents piled up on Wei Zhi's desk. He frowned when he saw the official document in Bai Shan's hand, "Why did Bai Shan come to deliver the official document in person?"
Bai Shandao: "There are several important official documents that require Mr. Wei's personal review."
When Wei Zhi heard this, he put down his pen and reached out to take it. Generally speaking, it was a secret order. It was escorted by someone from Zhongshu Province, reviewed by someone from Menxia Province, and then sent down by someone.
When he came, Bai Shanduo took two official documents. Wei Zhi scanned them at a glance. When he unfolded the last two imperial edicts, he paused.
He frowned slightly, "Your Majesty, what's the reason for this?"
Bai Shan: How did he know? Just because he didn’t know, he sent it to Wei Zhi personally, okay?
Wei Zhi pressed the note, thought for a while and then said: "Bai Sheren, please go back. I know about this matter. I will make a review and submit it to Your Majesty personally."
Bai Shan then said goodbye and left.
Wei Zhi thought for a while and took the two imperial edicts to the emperor.
The emperor knew that he would come. To be honest, the emperor felt a little regretful. He should not have burned those two envelopes so quickly. He should have kept them for Wei Zhiye to take a look at.
However, he was not timid on his face and said confidently: "These two people have impure thoughts and cannot be used."
Wei Zhi:...How many people who can enter the officialdom are simple-minded?
Even people like Zhou Manbaishan will still work hard for their own future and interests. How can one be considered innocent?
It is impossible to say that it is not useful. Not to mention Gong Hanlin, he was born as a Jinshi and had no academic ability. Otherwise, he would not have passed the Jinshi examination and then entered the Hanlin Academy;
Not to mention Ban Xin, his position in the province is not low, and he has to deal with countless government affairs every day. He is one of Wei Zhi's right-hand men, how can he be useless?
Wei Zhi looked at the emperor quietly.
The emperor looked at him silently, waved his hand in the end, and even Gu Zhong didn't ask anyone to leave. He and Wei Zhi talked alone.
"Before I returned to Taiyuan, I received two secret envelopes, saying that the prince was domineering in supervising the country, making a lot of noise, and was closely associated with the imperial guards," the emperor said: "The prince is suspected of dispatching troops to intercept me in Taiyuan."
The emperor looked at Wei Zhi and asked, "The prince oversees the country, and Wei Qing is the prime minister. He should know how the prince is doing, right?"
Wei knew: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has not done anything beyond the rules. Even when he went to Taiyuan to pick up the emperor, he discussed it with his ministers."
He paused and then said: "Your Majesty has been on an expedition for many days, and you have old injuries on your body. It is bitterly cold in Liaodong. His Royal Highness is worried that you will not be able to bear the cold weather and your old illness will relapse, so he took people to Taiyuan in advance to pick him up. Minister and others
Everyone agreed."
The emperor nodded slightly, "So, please, should they be demoted?"
"Have your Majesty asked these two people if they really wrote the book?"
The emperor said: "The excerpt was passed anonymously, but Yin Li found out about it."
Wei Zhi stopped talking. There is no doubt about Yin Li's ability. If he found out...
Wei Zhi believed it in his heart, but he still didn't believe that his own people would do such a thing, so he said: "Your Majesty, I want to ask Mr. Ban face to face."
The emperor said: "Go ahead, I also want to know why."
Wei Zhi then turned around and left with the imperial edict.
Seizing the throne is a major matter. Wei Zhi has always prohibited officials from the Menxia Province from participating. Even when the fight between the prince and Prince Gong was at its most intense, the Menxia Province was not involved in the dispute. Now that the prince has secured his position, why should Ban Xin?