When Yunxi walked in, Qitai immediately knelt down and said, "I have seen your majesty, Qitai. Long live, long live, long live!" As he said that, he kowtowed heavily.
"My dear, please get up." Yunxi said hurriedly, as if he was still thinking of reaching out to help. He retracted his hand halfway and signaled the eunuch beside him to help.
The moment he saw Qi Tai just now, he suddenly realized that he had not met Qi Tai in private for more than a year or almost two years. This person he once trusted the most and was the first minister around him could not help but think about it.
I thought about giving him a blow and forgot about it. I only realized it after I stretched out my hand.
"Thank you for your grace, Your Majesty." Qitai said, then stood up and stood in front of Yunxi.
Yunxi coughed lightly and said: "Qi Aiqing, I won't say much. I just want to ask you, why is the document requesting the allocation of money from Gezhiyuan not approved? I remember that I sent someone to tell you before that Gezhiyuan's money and food were not approved.
I will always be lenient, unless the amount is huge, then you are right here, just mention it a little bit in the memorial to me later."
"Besides, even if you think the amount is relatively large, you should still ask me about it, or ask Yang Shiqi to make a memorial to me and get my approval before approving it. How can you insist that you will not allocate money?"
"Your Majesty, I am stupid, but was it the time on the tenth day of the lunar month that Gezhiyuan asked for funds? I agreed and did not withhold the funds; or was it the time on the sixth day of the lunar month? But that time I told someone to the Yangyuan envoy,
This matter must be approved by His Majesty, and nothing happens after that. How can we blame the minister?" Although Qi Tai has decided to admit his mistake honestly, he still needs to distinguish clearly where he went wrong.
"You're still trying to shirk!" Hearing Qi Tai's words, Yunxi became angry again and said in a more serious tone: "It's not the memorial on the tenth day of the lunar month, nor the previous one. After Yang Shiqi reported this to me, I
If he didn't, let him go back and draft it again. This is what he has been doing these days! Yang Shiqi himself said that on the 17th, he submitted a document to the Ministry of Household Affairs, but the Ministry of Household Affairs rejected it. He went to the Ministry of Household Affairs a few more times and met with a doctor from the Shaanxi Division, but this
The doctor just keeps trying to push me away, so he has no choice but to give me a discount today!"
"On the seventeenth day?" Qi Tai said: "Your Majesty, I have not seen the writings of Gezhiyuan on the seventeenth day and the following days, nor have I heard any reports from the Shaanxi Division."
"You haven't heard of it?" Yunxi raised his voice and was about to refute, but suddenly thought: 'Qitai is my confidant. Even if he has been unable to keep up with the situation in the past two years, he will not deceive me.'
"Ai Qing, can you guarantee that what you said is correct?" Yunxi asked.
"I will never dare to lie in front of His Majesty." Qi Tai said firmly.
"Okay." After Yunxi said this, he turned around and walked to the door. He whispered a few instructions to Wang Xi behind him. Wang Xi bowed slightly and turned to leave the side hall.
Yunxi reached out and took down a book from the bookshelf, and asked Qitai: "What kind of book does Aiqing like to read?"
"Your Majesty, please give me a copy of "Historical Records"," Qi Tai said.
Yunxi took out "Historical Records" from the bookshelf and handed it to him. He thought of something else and said with a smile: "In the past, when you were by my side as an official in the East Palace, you liked to read "Historical Records", especially the pre-Qin period. But in fact, the pre-Qin period
Many records in this paragraph were written blindly by Sima Qian and have no source at all."
"Your Majesty, although it is indeed difficult to find the source of some records in the pre-Qin period, Tai Shigong's inference is reasonable and not necessarily wrong." Qi Tai also smiled.
Yunhe said a few more words to him, and suddenly realized that he was still doubting Qi Tai at this time. He coughed, stopped talking, and sat down to read a book. Qi Tai also sat half-sit on the chair and read.
I don’t know how long it took, but Wang Xi walked in, glanced at Qi Tai, leaned next to Yunxi and whispered: "Your Majesty, the Metropolitan Procuratorate has just verified that the matter was indeed not reported to Qi Shangshu by the Shaanxi Minister.
It was because he hated Gezhiyuan so much that he suppressed it."
"The servant also asked the guards to ask Yang Yuan envoy, and learned that Yang Yuan envoy did not dare to disturb Qi Shangshu with such things because of his low rank, so even if he accidentally met Qi Shangshu on the road these days, he never said anything
Let’s get over this.”
"You did a good job." Yunxi praised him in a low voice, closed the book, walked to Qi Tai and smiled at him: "Sure enough, I wrongly blamed Qi Qing. Qi Qing really wouldn't be so negligent about the things I explained.
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Qi Tai stood up in a hurry, saluted Yunxi and said: "Your Majesty, I know that your Majesty's arrangements have profound meanings. Even if I fail to understand them for a moment, I will never deliberately delay your Majesty's affairs."
"Qi Qing, you are so smooth with your flattery." Yunxi sat down next to him and said with a smile.
"Your Majesty, I am not trying to flatter you." Qi Tai said very frankly.
He really wasn't trying to flatter Yunxi on purpose. Although he said this with the intention of making Yunxi happy, it was also true. Yunxi had made many reforms in the past few years, and had already achieved initial results. Among them, Qi Tai was most impressed by the reforms.
What he praised was replacing officials with officials and replacing servants with police officers. In his opinion, it can be said that it has eradicated the ills that have been circulating for thousands of years, which is a great good.
He did not fully agree with other reforms, such as the establishment of the Cultural Propaganda Department in the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion, but later he understood Yunxi's intentions and knew that he had clear ideas.
Therefore, he believed that Gezhiyuan was definitely not established by Yunxi because of his "arrogant and lustful" or "losing one's ambition". It was probably a place to study weapons. Although he also believed that the combat effectiveness of the army did not lie in one or two advanced weapons, but
It's considered business, so there won't be any secret stumbling blocks.
Qi Tai vaguely talked about his thoughts with Yun Xi, and Yun Xi immediately sighed: "You, my old ministers, still understand me!" Qi Tai and others have been with him since the 25th and 6th year of Hongwu.
People who are officials spend much longer time with him than other people, not to mention that when he was the grandson, he had less things to do, and he spent more time criticizing the current affairs with the officials in the East Palace next to him. Unconsciously, he would bring out the
He had some thoughts of his own, so they had a much better grasp of his thoughts than other officials.
"It would be great if all the civil and military officials of the dynasty could serve me as officials for ten or eight years like you. I won't have to work so hard."
"Your Majesty, your Majesty has so many things to do now, how can he not have the time to discuss government affairs with his ministers like he did back then?" Qi Tai said with a smile.
"I know it too, but I just said it casually." Yunhe said.
They talked about old things for a while, and Qi Tai was about to stand up and leave. But he suddenly thought of something and said to Yunxi: "Your Majesty, even if your Majesty has many things to do now, you can still discuss government affairs with young talents, just like you used to do with your ministers.
It’s just like that. It’s hard for older ministers to change, but it’s easier for young people to accept His Majesty’s ideas.”
"You are right, I understand." Yunxi answered casually and was about to accept his farewell.
But at this moment, he suddenly thought of something and stood there in silence for a moment. It wasn't until Qi Tai reminded him that he calmed down and agreed.