Lu Laixia considers himself to be well-informed and has seen many big scenes. When he participated in the Battle of Goryeo Peninsula as a lieutenant colonel battalion commander of the Guards, he once led 500 Guards soldiers to face
Besieged by more than 4,000 Korean indigenous troops, they not only defended their position, but also killed half of the Korean indigenous troops. After the battle, in front of their position were the corpses of the Korean indigenous troops.
Even in that kind of situation, he can remain calm!
It was his outstanding performance in that battle that allowed him to be successfully promoted to Colonel of the Guards after returning to China!
This summer, he was transferred to the Guards Department as the deputy director. The Guards Department is actually an internal organization of the Guards, responsible for the internal security of the palace. The entire Guards Department has three teams and a total of more than a thousand soldiers.
, the guards inside the palace are on duty in three shifts, 24 hours a day.
This morning, it was Lu Laixia's duty time. He had just received a notification from the Secretariat of the Hanlin Academy that something might happen in the imperial study room and asked him to send someone over to take a look.
Considering that the imperial study room is the office of the ministers on duty, all of whom are important ministers of the empire, ordinary people may not be able to suppress them, so he personally brought more than 20 people there, but he did not expect that this person had just arrived.
Just saw this scene.
The dignified minister on duty in the imperial study room, a veritable important minister of the empire, rolled on the ground and struggled like a street gangster. How unbecoming is this!
However, this kind of thing is not something that Lu Laixia can judge. On the one hand, he quickly sent someone to inform His Majesty that the ministers in the imperial study were fighting. On the other hand, he also quickly led people forward to arrest He Deyuan.
It’s better to separate Shi Wuyan!
Although they did not dare to make any big moves, and the two ministers were not willing to be pulled apart and pulled desperately, the soldiers in the guard office were all the most elite active soldiers in the Guards, and they were all physically strong.
Zhuang, if this person hugs one of them, he will just carry them away!
Lu Laixia stopped her and said, "My lords, please calm down and talk to me if you have any questions. Don't do anything. This is inside the palace!"
"Stop talking, I have nothing to say to this kind of person!" Shi Wuyan snorted coldly!
He Deyuan on the side even said: "Go away, don't stop me, otherwise I will make you walk around without food!"
Lu Laixia didn't care about He Deyuan's threat. Putting aside the fact that these words were angry, even if what He Deyuan said was true, Lu Laixia would not tolerate him.
They are important officials of the empire, and it is true that Lu Laixia respects them, but it does not mean that Lu Laixia will really be threatened by him.
He, Lu Laixia, was not a civil official, but a soldier. In the Tang Empire, civil and military officials had always been in opposition, and military generals had always disdained civilian officials.
Not to mention that the Guards were very special in the Tang Empire. It would not be an exaggeration to say that they had a transcendent status. Their funding did not come from the fiscal budget, but came directly from the royal family's funds.
The Guards are not under the jurisdiction of the army or navy, or even the imperial study. They have an independent staff of the Guards, which is directly under the control of the Holy Emperor.
In addition, he, Lu Laixia, is also a colonel of the Guards and the deputy director of the Guards Department. His political status is not low. He can be regarded as the main person responsible for the security of the Holy Emperor. When the Holy Emperor travels, he, Lu Laixia, stands there.
At the side of the Holy Emperor.
When the Holy Emperor called him Lu Laixia, he did not use a normal title, but called him Lao Lu. This approachable title could prove that Lu Laixia was trusted by the Holy Emperor.
So Lu Laixia didn't care about He Deyuan's innocuous threats, and still forcibly arranged for people to separate them. Of course, although he didn't care in his heart, he still had to show respect on the surface. After all, these people were all important ministers of the empire.
So I said several nice words in a row, which made them calm down a little.
After a while, a subordinate came back and whispered in his ear: "Your Majesty said he understands!"
knew?
What do these three words represent?
Lu Laixia thought about the words of the Holy Emperor Li Xuan, and finally said: "My lords, please continue to work, I will wait at the door!"
Since the Holy Emperor said he understood and had no other clear instructions, Lu Laixia also knew what he should do, that is, to be nosy, as long as he stayed outside and didn't have any big accidents!
Before leaving, Lu Laixia whispered a few words to a few of his subordinates, and then the guards at the guard's office took away some sharp things in the imperial study that could easily be picked up and fought with.
As for ordinary fights, they would stand guard at the door and rush in if there was any movement. It is estimated that these old guys would not be able to fight or hurt anyone.
Lu Laixia took the people out, but stayed at the door before leaving. The door at the door was not closed, just in case someone could rush in at any time.
As for whether she would hear something secret when she opened the door, Lu Laixia wasn't worried, because the adults inside didn't go out of their way to close the door. In other words, they weren't afraid that Lu Laixia would hear it.
Anyway, what we are discussing today is budget matters, and they are not considered imperial secrets. As for some dirty things that happened during the discussion, he has even seen the fights between important officials of the empire, so naturally he doesn’t care about them. As the deputy director of the Guards Department,
, one of His Majesty’s security chiefs, he has never seen any dirty things, he has seen a lot!
After seeing it too much, you won’t be surprised. Anyway, as long as you don’t leak these imperial secrets, it won’t be a big deal. As for leaking, please, you think those Hantong hawks and dogs are just eating for nothing.
You will be secretly arrested directly.
Lu Laixia was guarding the door with someone. It was relatively calm inside at first, but soon there was an argument again. But from the sound, it was just an ordinary argument. It was nothing more than you scolding me and I scolding you.
By the way, I would like to greet the women in my family and the eighteen generations of my ancestors. Sometimes these curse words are not used in vernacular, but in classical Chinese, which sounds obscure and difficult to understand.
When Lu Laixia heard this kind of argument, she didn't even bother to open her eyes!
During meetings in the Royal Study Room, arguments often broke out. Meetings like this on budget allocation would lead to direct fights. This kind of swearing was childish.
But about two moments later, Lu Laixia suddenly heard the sound of a bottle being smashed inside. He immediately opened his eyes, then took two quick steps and rushed in. When he saw it, he saw a broken vase on the ground.
Ma Wei, the Minister of Civil Affairs, was pointing fingers at each other and scolding Admiral Bao Yifen, the head of the Military Command Department of the Naval Command.
Lu Laixia was too lazy to listen to the scoldings. As long as they didn't fight, he didn't care. At the same time, he ordered his guards to clean up the fragments of vases on the ground to avoid being used as murder weapons by these excited ministers on duty. Then he said as usual
: "Two adults, don't get excited. Let's talk carefully and don't get excited!"
However, no one listened to Lu Laixia's words. Ma Wei and Bao Yifen did not even look at Lu Laixia, but continued to yell at each other, and the curses were naturally mixed with all kinds of money.
Lu Laixia didn't care about the reaction of these two people. Anyway, they didn't fight, they just cursed. It's okay!
After cleaning up the vase fragments, Lu Laixia once again led others out of the imperial study and continued waiting at the door!
It had been a long wait, and he was tired of standing. He even asked people to bring dozens of chairs, and while he was basking in the winter sunshine outside, he listened to the quarrels in the imperial study room.
When it was lunch time, Lu Laixia thought that the adults inside had been arguing for so long and were probably hungry, so she immediately went to the secretariat to see if they could arrange meals for the adults.
The response I got was: "No!"
Apart from Shengtianzi, there is no one who can say these two words.
However, these adults were not allowed to eat. The guards in their guard office still had to eat. Soon, lunch boxes were arranged and meals were delivered. The twenty or so guards who could not leave because they were on duty had to eat outside.
Got up.
Maybe he smelled the aroma of the food outside, and he was hungry after arguing all morning. Immediately, someone walked out, it was Shi Wuyan, the censor of Zuodu. This man's face still had dark circles left from the previous fight.
Just listen to him say: "Boy Lu, let someone arrange for the food to be delivered!"
Lu Laixia put down the bowl in his hand and stood up, then said respectfully: "Actually, the official has already called me just now, and the secretariat sent a message saying, no!"
Not allowed?
When Shi Wuyan heard this, he subconsciously wanted to curse and be paralyzed. Who dares to let the ministers on duty in the imperial study room go hungry?
But his head reacted instantly, and then he swallowed back the words he just wanted to curse!
In the entire Tang Dynasty, who else could say this except the Holy Emperor Li Xuan!
Then he could only take a breath and say: "Then let them bring tea. All the tea has been drank!"
There is no problem with this. Your Majesty never said that these ministers should not be allowed to drink water!
So Lu Laixia quickly ordered people to change the tea.
Next, the arguments in the imperial study continued, but maybe it was because Lu Laixia and others were keeping watch outside, or maybe because they didn't eat at noon, so they were hungry and had no energy, so they didn't start fighting again.
Since there was no fighting inside, Lu Laixia was happy and at ease!
It was not until evening that the arguments inside gradually subsided, and then Liu Bagou was seen coming out with a report. Judging from where he was going, he knew that he was going to make a report to His Majesty.
It is estimated that the final budget plan has been made!
Then, the other ministers on duty also came out one after another, but their faces were not very good-looking. They might be hungry or angry.
Anyway, judging from the previous quarrel that he, Lu Laixia, sat in on, it seemed that no one was satisfied!
The Army should be short of 1.5 million taels of silver, and the Navy is also short of 500,000 taels of silver. Even a powerful organization like the Department of Taxation, even if Qian Zongli threatens to have less funding, will make it more difficult to collect taxes.
, but the tax department’s funds were still reduced by 650,000 taels!
The budgets of other institutions have been more or less compressed, and even the funds of the Ministry of Rites are no exception. Although the basic education funds they receive are not less, because this is the bottom line drawn by His Majesty,
It cannot be compressed, but other funds of the Ministry of Rites have been compressed even more severely.
It's strange that they can be happy with less money.
General Lei Wan was the last one to come out. When he walked past Lu Laixia, he sighed: "You Guardsmen are better!"
Lu Laixia didn't reply, but she secretly said in her heart: "Of course!"