Bai Shan and Man Bao then remembered that Bai Erlang had been promoted when he was debating his merits during the Eastern War, but it was already winter, so he did not catch up with the assigned fields.
Manbao perked up and immediately said: "This is good. Let's see how many ranks I will be demoted by then. Let's see if you can accept them all."
Bai Erlang asked her to open her mind, and she thought thoughtfully, "Liu Huan has also been promoted to half a rank. Although the added positions are not many, the wealth will not go to outsiders. I will mention it to Liu Shangshu later and divide the positions.
Then give some of it from me."
Bai Shan: "...Is now the time to talk about this? Shouldn't we talk about how to save Zheng Gu now?"
Man Bao sighed, "It's beyond our reach, how can we save it?"
Bai Shan looked outside and said: "The Chinese New Year is coming soon. In a few days it will be the Little New Year. If we want to deal with Zheng Gu in Luozhou, we have to wait until after the new year. This is a good thing and a bad thing. The good thing is that they can't be arbitrary. The bad thing is
, people are kept in jail for fear that something will happen."
Man Bao said: "Shopkeeper Zheng sent someone to Luozhou with the money yesterday."
Bai Shan was very worried, "There is also a Jishitang branch in Luoyang, but I'm afraid I won't be able to redeem him with money."
When Man Bao heard this, he couldn't help frowning, "What should we do? The people from the Imperial Medical Office still have to wait for the people from Dali Temple and Yushitai to come together. I'm afraid it will take a day or two before they can set off. Once this official document arrives in Luozhou..."
Man Bao was shocked and couldn't help but sit up straight, his face turned a little pale.
Seeing that she had thought about it, Bai Shan lowered his voice and said: "Two ways, you go there in person. If you can't do business, then smuggle it in and find an excuse to take a long leave; the second way is to ask Prince Gong to come forward.
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Bai Erlang couldn't help but said: "Can Prince Gong help us? Tell him that he won't harm us, right?"
He said: "It is better to tell the prince."
"No!" Man Bao and Bai Shan said in unison, their faces darkening at the same time.
Bai Erlang didn't expect them to react so much, so he leaned back in surprise.
Man Bao said: "Anyone can tell, except the prince."
Bai Shan nodded, he was also worried that this matter had something to do with the prince. If it was related, he should stay away from the prince even more at this time, otherwise the quagmire would get deeper and deeper; if it had nothing to do with it, he could not drag the prince into the water.
He said: "The prince has just finished supervising the country. The most important thing about this matter is to keep a low profile. Luozhou is a place and the fiefdom of Prince Gong. If you are not careful, the prince will be dragged into the muddy water. For the prince, Zheng Gu and the Imperial Medical Office
It’s not a good thing.”
Man Bao agreed, "I'll go find Prince Gong!"
Now Bai Shan wanted to vomit blood, "I asked you to choose one of the two, I didn't ask you to choose both."
Man Bao said: "Erlang is right. If I write a letter, it would be strange if Prince Gong agreed to it. He might even try to harm me. I'd better go there myself."
If it works, she will ask Prince Gong for help. If it doesn't work, she can do it privately in the past.
She is a fourth-grade official after all, isn't she?
Bai Shan thought for a while and then said: "Go and ask Princess Mingda to take you to see the queen."
Man Bao then looked at Bai Erlang.
Bai Erlang felt that since he had already skipped work anyway, he would be scolded if he rushed back now. It would be better to skip work all day and be scolded again tomorrow morning.
So Shi Shiran got up and took Manbao back to find Mingda.
Mingda and Manbao entered the palace and asked her, "You went to Luozhou, what will your sister do here?"
Man Bao said: "She is just afraid and regards the consort as one of her own, so she can't control her temper. This disease means that you need to relax, talk more, and go out for walks to relax. But it's winter now."
, it’s too cold outside to go out, alas, I can only let my consort Wei suffer a little more and spend more time with her.”
"But it's hard for the princess to be pregnant. It's hard work. If we share it between two people, it won't be so hard. If I can get the task, please tell this to Wei's consort for me. If not, then there's no need.
I will go and talk to Wei's consort in person."
Mingda:……
Man Bao and Ming Da went to see the Queen. They first asked her to have a safe pulse, and then talked about Prince Gong, "I wonder if His Highness Prince Gong will come to the palace to celebrate the New Year this year?"
The queen smiled and said, "It's hard to go out when the weather is cold. He spent time in Beijing last year, but he won't come this year."
The emperor finally accepted the reality that the relationship between Prince Gong and the Crown Prince was not good, so before he went to Liaodong, he was also afraid that some catastrophe would happen to their brothers, so he specially issued an order for Prince Gong to stay in Luozhou. He was not allowed to enter Beijing without an imperial edict.
Not allowed to leave Luozhou.
He also hinted to the prince that he was not allowed to summon Prince Gong during his expedition.
During the emperor's expedition, one of the brothers was in the capital and the other in Luozhou, and they were living in peace.
Man Bao said: "His Royal Highness Prince Gong's degenerative disease should be reviewed. I heard that there is a lot of snow in Luozhou this year, so I'm afraid it will make him more sore."
She said: "But it is cold and snowy, and traveling is inconvenient. It is difficult for Prince Gong to come to Beijing. I would like to go to Luozhou for diagnosis and treatment and review."
This is a normal thing. When some of the emperor's relatives and frontier officials are sick, the emperor and empress will ask the imperial doctors from the imperial hospital to go to the local area to treat people in person in order to show their favor. Therefore, the imperial doctors from the imperial hospital will occasionally go out.
Bad.
But this was not so normal when it happened to Prince Gong and Zhou Man.
Who doesn't know that Prince Gong and Zhou Man don't have a good relationship, so Prince Gong doesn't care, but Zhou Man also dislikes Prince Gong very much, and secretly teases him a lot.
The queen looked at her and said after a while: "Isn't Mr. Zhou on vacation?"
Man Bao nodded calmly, "Yes, today is the last day."
Mingda turned to Manbao and said, "Master Zhou, go out and wait for me. My mother and I have something to say in private."
Man Bao then stood up and retreated.
After the others left, Mingda quietly told the story about Zheng Gu.
Only then did the queen understand, and couldn't help but smile: "This is a matter for the court, and your father will handle it impartially."
Mingda said: "My father will naturally handle it impartially, and that's all. My daughter will not interfere. It's just that her apprentice recently married a new daughter-in-law. I heard that she is only three months pregnant, and now they are both in jail."
She said: "Dali Temple and Yushitai have their own procedures and steps for handling cases. I'm afraid they won't be able to arrive in Luozhou for seven or eight days. When they arrive in Luozhou, it will be the New Year. They are all men and they don't think carefully about it. Yamen
If a seal is issued, the case will not be handled until the next year. If Zheng Gu pays back, if a pregnant woman stays in jail for such a long time, I'm afraid..."
The queen was indeed soft-hearted. She was startled for a moment, thought for a moment, and asked: "She is Teacher Zheng Gu, and she cannot participate in the case. Can she bring the person up if she goes there?"
"Zheng Gu may not be able to bring it up, but his wife should be fine."
The queen nodded. In fact, there is a simpler way. She can just issue a decree directly, but that would mean that the harem is interfering in politics, which the queen cannot do.
In contrast, it would be the best way to let Zhou Man go see Prince Gong's injury and do some work along the way.
However, Zhou Man's medical skills were good, and the queen did not want her to leave the capital easily, so she said, "I have to ask your father."
Of course, the queen would not tell the emperor everything. Instead, she told him about Prince Gong's leg injury and said: "It's cold in the winter, so I'm afraid he'll feel uncomfortable. He can't come to Beijing this year, otherwise I'll send an imperial physician to check on him."
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The emperor agreed without thinking, nodded repeatedly and said: "If I ask someone to bring more medicinal materials, I may not see him for a long time. It's weird."
The queen skipped this sentence and said directly: "Your Majesty, what do you think of Zhou Man?"
See you tomorrow, make up for more after two days, just settled in the past two days, it's a bit busy