Chapter 825 825 Imperial Envoy, Can’t Wake Up Someone Pretending to Sleep
There are no secrets in a place like the capital, and the Prince Wang did not deliberately conceal the incident in Liulicang. He announced yesterday evening that he would allow people to use money to invest in Liulicang. Not only the emperor, but also everyone in the upper-class nobility with some connections knew about it.
As soon as the emperor received the news, he knew something was wrong. Xiao Jiu'an was using Liulifang to win people's hearts and fight against him.
Sure enough, Xiao Jiuan is not a calm person. He has just taken action, and before anyone can officially take over the Yanbei army outside the city, Xiao Jiuan started to fight back.
Last night, the emperor stayed up all night, thinking about what to do to suppress Xiao Jiu'an's arrogance. Unexpectedly, before he could think of a way, he received news that Xiao Jiu'an had entered the palace early in the morning and met with the minister at the gate of the palace.
"Is Xiao Jiu'an going to rebel?" To win people's hearts and win over courtiers, these are things that Xiao Jiu'an didn't even bother to do before, but now Xiao Jiu'an has done it all. Even if he said he had no ideas, the emperor wouldn't believe it.
"How dare he, how dare he!" The emperor's hands were trembling, and the little eunuch who was dressing him could clearly feel it.
The little eunuch's hand slipped and his sleeve did not reach the emperor's arm, and touched the emperor's hand. The little eunuch turned pale with fright and quickly knelt down to apologize.
The emperor seemed not to have heard anything, and his handsome face twisted, looking extremely terrifying. When the maids and eunuchs serving in the palace saw this scene, they all knelt down, but did not dare to make a sound, and held their breaths one by one.
He didn't even dare to take a breath.
"What should I do? What should I do to stop him?" The emperor was completely immersed in his own thoughts at this moment, his eyes unfocused but filled with anxiety and uneasiness.
"I'm not afraid of him. I'm the emperor. I have a hundred thousand forbidden troops in my hands. The troops of the three generals are coming one after another. Xiao Jiu'an can't be arrogant for long. He can't be arrogant for long." The emperor roared with gritted teeth. The eunuchs and maids in the palace were
He was trembling with fear and his body was shaking non-stop.
The emperor seemed not to notice, and said angrily: "Why don't you serve me and get dressed?"
"Yes, yes." All the eunuchs and maids in the palace thought they had escaped. They quickly got up from the ground, carefully put on the emperor's dragon robe, and took care of the crown. They waited until the emperor looked in good spirits, then quietly retreated to the
aside.
Through the half-high bronze mirror, he saw himself in the mirror as majestic as before. The anger on the emperor's face was slightly reduced, but it was still difficult to hide his gloom.
With this look on his face, the emperor stepped out of the palace. Before going down the steps, he paused and said to the guards beside him: "Clean up the people inside."
"Yes." The guard showed no expression and was not surprised at all.
In the palace, death is a normal thing...
The morning court was held as scheduled. The emperor sat high on the dragon chair, and the ministers knelt down and worshiped at the foot of the steps. They were far apart and no one dared to raise their heads. Therefore, no one saw the emperor's embarrassed expression. They could only judge from the emperor's occasional words.
The emperor was not in a good mood.
Most of the people could understand that King Yanbei changed his previous concession and suddenly became more assertive. Not to mention the emperor, even they were afraid of him.
However, this kind of thing can only be discussed in private and must not be mentioned in public. The biggest issue in Qi today is the matter of the Medicine Sect, and this matter was still discussed in the morning.
Regarding the Yao Sect incident, everyone has the same attitude. We must handle it strictly, we must handle it strictly, and we must also check whether the Yao Sect has committed other crimes, and whether there is any place similar to the Yao Sect in Tianqi.
The ministers suggested that the emperor could send an imperial envoy to patrol the sky on his behalf to explore the people's conditions in various places to avoid something like the Yao Sect happening again.
The emperor agreed with this suggestion. After the Yaomen incident, the court's credibility dropped sharply. The court urgently needed to do something to regain the love and support of the people.
But there was a big dispute about the selection of the imperial envoy.
This is an obviously thankless job. Although it has great power, it does not happen in a short time. Moreover, if you do this kind of thing well, it is your duty, and if you do it poorly, it is dereliction of duty.
Apocalypse is so big, there is definitely more than one place like Yaomen that treats the people as human beings. Not to mention those poor mountains and rivers, places that cannot be seen in the capital, even in the land of the capital, there is no shortage of filth and dirty things behind the scenes.
No matter who accepts this imperial envoy, he will not end well in the end.
After the emperor approved this suggestion, a group of ministers quickly proposed the person they recommended: Mr. Ji!
"Master Ji is a man of integrity and has taught Your Majesty. He is a truly talented and virtuous man. I recommend Master Ji." He can even sacrifice his own daughter, but he is not a virtuous person.
"Xue Da is right. Mr. Ji comes from a wealthy family, and many of his descendants are officials in other places. When Mr. Ji goes out to investigate cases, he will definitely be able to find out everything in every corner of the country." A small family like the Ji family
, there are not many promising members of the clan, and even if there are a few, they will not let the Ji clan members serve as officials in the capital, so that the Ji family has the possibility of becoming big.
Any big family grows up little by little from a small family. The two emperors before and after them have great trust in the Ji family, so they must be on guard against it.
"Master Ji is noble and righteous. This matter belongs to none other than Master Ji."
"Your Excellency, Mr. Ji, is a high-ranking official. Only if he goes there can he convince the officials everywhere."
"The New Year has just passed, and various ministries have new work, and the affairs are complicated. At this time, only Mr. Ji is free."
…
All the ministers spoke to each other and praised Master Ji to the sky. At the same time, they also hinted to the emperor that except for Master Ji, they were all busy.
A first-rank minister like Mr. Ji who leads a six-pronged reform ministry is really idle when he is unable to promote reforms. And which of the other first-rank ministers has no actual duties?
At this time, no one except Mr. Ji can leave.
Lord Ji knew that he was going to die when he heard that all the ministers in the court recommended him. He knew better that he could not rely on the emperor for this matter. With half of the ministers in the court recommending him, the emperor would definitely not be able to withstand the pressure and would definitely compromise in the end.
.
Therefore, before the emperor could speak, Mr. Ji stood up and said sincerely: "I am willing to serve as the emperor, for the emperor..."
There was a "bang", but before the last two words were spoken, Mr. Ji suddenly twitched, twisted the corner of his mouth, and fell to the ground.
"Master Ji, Master Ji!"
"Master Ji, are you okay?"
"Master Ji..."
…
All the ministers were dumbfounded and came forward to check. However, no matter how they shouted, they could not wake up Mr. Ji.
All the ministers looked at Mr. Ji with his eyes closed and the corners of his mouth crooked. They couldn't help cursing in their hearts: He was actually pretending to be sick, which was totally against the title of Imperial Master.
I was scolding him in my heart, but I had to put on a worried look on my face: "Imperial physician... please call the imperial physician quickly. Your Majesty, Lord Ji has fainted. I would like to ask the emperor to declare the imperial physician to Lord Ji."
The emperor was confused by Master Ji's move. One second he was thinking about how to change the candidate, and the next second Master Ji fell to the ground. This was too late... (To be continued)