I am the leader of the capital

Yushitai is located in the south of the imperial inner city, not far to the west of Suzaku Avenue. The fast-running young people have already started beating drums to express their grievances. The rotating officials in Yushitai heard the shouts and drums and went out to have a look.

Seeing someone coming out from Yushi Tai, one by one figure shouted to find Qi Yushi. The official on duty was frightened half to death after seeing the posture of the crowd. One of them thought it was going to rebel.

"Everyone be quiet, everyone be quiet, what things are quiet, Mr. Qi Yushi has not come back from the court, what things are the same as what I said."

As soon as the crowd heard that Qi Yushi was not there, they immediately became quiet. They all looked at each other and didn't know what to do. Yun Bailing rolled his big eyes and said loudly to the crowd: "Then let's go find him, and we'll go to court." Just go to the gate of the palace and wait."

"Yes, yes, let's go to Chengtianmen."

"Go to Chengtianmen."

The shouts went eastward like the wind blowing grass, and the people who didn't squeeze into the center instinctively went eastward after hearing the shouts.

A group of people walked not far to the east, and they arrived at Suzaku Avenue, and then a group of people began to chatter and discuss. This Suzaku Avenue corresponds to Chengtian Gate, the south gate of the Imperial Inner City.

Today's court is noisy because of one incident. According to what Si Tianjian said, this year will be very hot. Zhang Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry proposed to deal with it earlier. This is a good thing, but the money is not his The Ministry of Industry can deliver.

This is the problem, the Minister of the Ministry of Industry needs money to do things, the Minister of the Ministry of Households does not give money, and the Ministry of Households does not allocate money, then all construction is empty talk, so the court began to divide into two factions.

The faction headed by the Minister of the Ministry of Industry advocates immediately allocating money to the Ministry of Industry to build water conservancy to deal with the severe heat and drought in advance; the faction headed by the Minister of the Ministry of Households believes that the hot weather does not mean a severe drought. If the money is wasted, if other disasters occur, it will be difficult to provide money for relief, so how should we deal with it?
Zhang Shangshu is a bit older, but he is still considered middle-aged among the people standing in front of the hall. Those who can achieve this position are in their fifties to seventies. Zhang Shangshu said to Hubu Shangshu: " I think you just take the money of the empire as yours, you miser, nine times out of ten there will be a severe drought on a hot day, and you simply don’t care about the safety of the people.”

"If you don't know the price of firewood and rice if you are not in charge, you know how to spend money. If the money is wasted, will your Shangshufu make up for it? Opening your mouth is the safety of the people. If your money is wasted, when the time comes If there is no money for disaster relief in other disasters, that is disregarding the safety of the people." The bearded and staring Minister of the Household Department was very dissatisfied with what the Minister of the Ministry of Industry said.

Zhang Shangshu bowed to the emperor, pointed to the Hubu Shangshu and said, "Master Shangshu's words are wrong. Isn't it saying that our empire is full of disasters? The emperor is a generation of sages. How can there be great disasters in this world?" disaster?"

"Shut your stinking mouth, you sycophant. Of course I know that the emperor's sage reaches directly into the sky. Then I shouldn't spend money on water conservancy projects. I will be fine, and the mountains and rivers will be safe."

Hearing the words of Shangshu from the Ministry of Households, Shangshu from the Ministry of Industry was taken aback for a moment. What he said before seemed to lead him into a ditch. Looking back, none of the people from the Ministry of Industry who only knew how to keep their heads down could speak. He complained to the emperor: "I also ask the emperor to save the people of the world and honor the name of the emperor."

Before the old emperor sat on the dragon chair and had no time to speak, the guards in front of the hall began to draw their swords. Outside the hall, the guards of the Dayuan Army began to warn, "Send orders to both sides, send orders to the four directions, block each door, block each door, prepare for battle, Prepare for battle."

There was a sudden chaos in the court hall, and several generals among a group of military officers immediately surrounded the steps of the emperor's dragon chair. General Zhengnan stared at the generals and shouted at the generals under his command: "Find out the reason immediately, Hurry up."

Several generals guarded the emperor's four directions, and a group of second-class military officers began to form a second circle. Among the civil servants, there were also many not weak eyes looking around, especially in the air, for fear that the enemy would appear in the air. Appeared quietly on the beam in the main hall.

A few older officials subconsciously looked at the position of the head of the military officer. There was a person standing there all the time. He was dressed in white and could go to the temple with a knife.

That figure has been going to court abnormally for many years, but people who have experienced that era subconsciously look for his figure. It seems that with the white clothes, the country is safe and the world is not chaotic.

Realizing that 30 years have passed, many people in the hall felt lost. The old emperor on the dragon seat stared blankly at that position, tears slowly shed from his old and cloudy eyes. The emperor thought that Mr. Bai was here, not Mr. Bai Shangshu, but Mr. Bai.

Not long after, the sound of footsteps preparing for battle outside dispersed. After entering the hall, a god general knelt down on one knee facing the emperor, clasped his fists and said, "Report to the emperor, it is not an enemy attack, yes, it is..."

The god general looked at Zhang Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, and after hearing that there was nothing wrong, Zhang Shangshu, who was still thinking about how to get money out of the pocket of the Ministry of Households, saw the god looking at him, and suddenly panicked, didn't he say What happened, but making such a big commotion is probably not a good thing.

Several great generals were protecting the emperor's dragon seat and hadn't retreated yet. The old emperor looked indifferently at the general who dared not speak, and said, "What? Do you have to look at other people's eyes when you talk in the court?" ? Do you know who the emperor is?"

The general was so frightened that he knelt on his knees and kowtowed, and Zhang Shangshu also knelt down hastily. Even if he didn't know what happened, the general knelt there and dared not lift his head and said, "The people outside are crying out for grievances, and there is nothing wrong with it." Other acts of violence, but there are too many people, and there are still people gathering here. The reason should be that during the Lantern Festival, a son of Zhang Shangshu's family fell in love with a young lady from a wealthy businessman's family in the west of the city. At that time, Qi Yushi And because of this incident, I participated in Zhang Shangshu."

Immediately, everyone's eyes turned to Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry. There are only six Shangshu above the court, and only one is surnamed Zhang. In addition, the emperor reprimanded Zhang Shangshu for his lax housekeeping, but everyone couldn't figure it out. What happens again will provoke public outrage.

Without waiting for the emperor to ask again, the general continued: "Ever since this incident reached the emperor's ears after the Lantern Festival, the son of Zhang Shangshu's family still did not let go, and began to threaten the life of the entire Li family to force the girl to marry him. He became a concubine, and he publicized it, and the woman was worried about the lives of her parents and the whole family, so she dared not refuse."

"After everyone knew about it, the son of Zhang Shangshu's family rushed into the rich merchant's house with the guards of Shangshu's mansion this morning, tied up the whole family, beat them, and then tied the girl into a sedan chair and brought him back. Zhang Mansion, after being stopped by Mr. Yun from Xueyu Villa on the way, the common people were able to know that this woman did not marry into Zhang Manor voluntarily. I heard that Mr. Zhang also said that no one would believe the girl even if she reported to the officials afterwards. It has long been rumored that she is going to marry into Zhang Shangshu's residence."

Although the god general didn't want to offend Zhang Shangshu, he had already said everything, so it was better to finish, so he continued: "The people are asking Qi Yushi to check Zhang Shangshu's mansion carefully. Is it true that the girls’ homes are all done by the Shangshu Mansion, they said that the Zhang Shangshu Mansion even robbed the women of rich merchants if they wanted it, and the small families didn’t even need to play tricks.”

In the hall, there was a moment of silence where a needle fell to the ground and could be clearly heard. Zhang Shangshu knelt on the ground, and beads of sweat the size of peas fell to the ground. He knew he was doomed, and he might not be able to sit still in this position. No matter what the matter is, no matter who is at fault, as long as there is public anger, someone must be pushed out to eliminate the public anger, and he himself will be demoted from his post at the worst, or exiled at worst.

The emperor sighed deeply, and slowly closed his eyes. No one in the hall dared to speak. After a long time, the emperor opened his eyes and waved his hand to signal the generals who were protecting the dragon chair to step down. Scanning around, "My good official, the emperor of the capital robbed the women of the people at the foot of the capital, and I still didn't give up after being reprimanded. It's so majestic, so majestic, really so majestic."

All the ministers in the court suddenly knelt down on the ground in a panic. Everyone knew that the emperor was angry with the series of majestic powers. , you can do whatever you want more than I do, how about letting you Zhang Shangshu sit on this dragon chair?"

"My emperor calm down." All the officials from one place said in unison.

Zhang Shangshu sat paralyzed on the ground, regained his senses and kowtowed desperately, not daring to say anything, the emperor asked him to make a dragon chair, and he knew what would meet him, the emperor looked at Zhang Shangshu who kowtowed again.

"Bang!" The angry emperor suddenly slapped the table in front of him, and roared: "Yushitai visited you, I told you, but this son of your Shangshufu dared, how dare you? Zhang Shangshu , how dare you Shangshufu? I told you to stop and your Shangshufu would not stop, what do you want to do?"

"I don't dare, I have no way to discipline, I ask the emperor to punish, and I hope the emperor will not be angry with the dragon body." Zhang Shangshu kowtowed desperately, hoping that the emperor would reminisce a little bit, but the emperor no longer looked at him. .

The chaotic officials in the court stood up in an orderly manner again, and the old emperor looked at the eunuch beside him, and said coldly: "Go, go and ask my people why they don't go to the Yamen to report such things, why don't they go to Dali Temple to report the case , Why did you go to Yushitai, why did you make trouble in this imperial city? See if someone has blinded me."