Li Chen picked up the tea cup and took a sip. He spit it out and put it aside as soon as he took it into his mouth.
It's cold.
"Go out and get twenty pieces for yourself."
Li Chen said calmly: "I am most impatient when it comes to employing people. If the job is done well, I will naturally be rewarded. But if the job is not done well, I will be stingy and give you one more chance."
"Just because you are a first-time offender and you have meritorious service and hard work in the past, I will spare you this time. Next time, you will not be the deputy commander."
Chen Tong was frightened when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "I know it's a sin because of my humble position. Thank you for your grace, Your Highness!"
Seeing that Li Chen didn't say anything, Chen Tong stood up carefully and walked backward out of Xi Zheng Palace.
After a while, the sound of a board was heard outside.
After a long while, Chen Tong limped into Xi Zheng Hall again.
"Is the fight finished?" Li Chen said calmly.
Chen Tong's face was covered with sweat at the moment. He gritted his teeth and said, "The beating is over. Thank you for your generosity, Your Highness."
"Go to Zhang Hezhi and give you two patches of medicine."
Li Chen sent Chen Tong away. Before he could take a breath, the sound of a memorial came from outside.
"Your Highness the Crown Prince, Hubu, something happened over there."
Looking at the out of breath eunuch, Li Chen frowned and said, "What are you so anxious about?"
"Xu Changqing, the left minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and Guan Zhiwei, the right minister of the Ministry of Industry, are fighting!"
Li Chen was stunned.
He was able to face the Queen and Zhao Xuanji head-on, and at this moment, his face had an expression he had never seen before.
After a moment of astonishment, Li Chen's face suddenly darkened.
"Call those two losers to me!"
"They are already waiting outside the East Palace."
A moment later, Xu Changqing, with a bruised nose and swollen face, tilted his official hat, and a button on his official uniform was broken. He stood in the Xi Zheng Hall angrily. Standing next to him was a man who had lost half his teeth and was covering his cheek.
Guan Zhiwei had a black eye and even lost one of his boots.
"The humble minister Xu Changqing and Guan Zhiwei have seen His Royal Highness the thousand years old."
Li Chen was sitting on a high seat, and his face became gloomy when he saw the two people looking embarrassed.
"What a great skill you guys have."
"There is a left minister from the Ministry of Finance and a right minister from the Ministry of Works. They are all high-ranking officials. What do you think of yourselves? A gangster on the street or a gangster? Fighting in the Ministry of Finance in public will make all the civil and military officials laugh. Daqin
Since the founding of the country, it has been more than three hundred years since you two were born!?"
Xu Changqing and Guan Zhiwei looked embarrassed, both a little frightened.
"Your Highness, I know I was wrong."
Looking at Xu Changqing who was speaking, the official uniform was slumped and hanging limply, revealing the white inner placket. Li Chen said angrily: "Tell me, what happened today?
If you two don't give me a good enough reason, be prepared to take the hat off your head and let me guard the city gate!"
Upon hearing this, Xu Changqing immediately pointed at Guan Zhiwei and said, "Your Highness, it's Guan Zhiwei who doesn't know what's good and what's good, and is looking for a beating."
"There are thirteen dykes on the Yellow River in Xishan Province, and there are two other dykes that are in urgent need of repair. He took the approval document from the Ministry of Works and came to the minister to ask for money, but His Highness said that the money in the treasury must be earmarked for the current use, and there is no money from His Highness.
The handwriting says that not a single penny of silver is allowed to go out. The humble minister said this, but this ungrateful thing actually started to curse."
The more Xu Changqing talked, the more he felt aggrieved and angrier, saying: "Wei Chen couldn't bear it anymore, so I punched him."
Guan Zhiwei next to him immediately became furious when he heard this.
"Xu Changqing, how can you be so able to confuse right and wrong!?"
