Starting from Li Chengqian, the prince of the Qing Dynasty, to be honored

Chapter 11
Emperor Qing said indifferently: "The crown prince is the foundation of a country. As the prime minister, you are in charge of all the officials. Why don't you make suggestions?"

Lin Ruofu hesitated for a moment, and said loudly: "The old minister will speak a few words boldly." He paused for a moment, as if he was thinking, and soon he said: "Although the crown prince has reached the crown, he has no experience in handling political affairs. If you want the prince to join the officials, I'm afraid it's inappropriate, the army is suffering, and you may hurt the prince's body, the old minister thinks about it, but the inner treasury is more suitable."

As soon as the words fell, a man with a solemn face, regular facial features, and a four-inch beard on his chin, who looked about four or fifty years old, stood up immediately and said in a solemn voice: "This statement is absurd, His Royal Highness is distinguished, how can you To do such filthy business affairs? There are countless civil and military officials in the court, and there are countless positions, how can there be no place for the prince to do things? Lin Ruofu, as a prime minister, how can you be so stupid?"

In the entire court, apart from Chen Pingping, the head of the Overwatch Council who was not present today, only Sinanbo Fan Jian, who grew up with Emperor Qing, dared to call Lin Ruofu by his name so directly and confronted him.

Lin Ruofu glanced at Fan Jian with a little surprise, and couldn't help but think of the fact that the other party entered the palace to see His Majesty two years ago, and wanted his daughter Lin Wan'er to betroth his illegitimate son.

At that time, this guy wanted his illegitimate son to take over the inner treasury.

In fact, he still doesn't understand why His Majesty agreed to let his daughter marry a mere illegitimate son of Sinan Bo, and even handed over the inner treasury to that little-known illegitimate son.

It doesn't make sense at all.

It doesn't make sense either.

At the same time, Chen Pingping was extremely opposed to this matter for some reason, and rushed into the palace the next day, causing His Majesty to cancel this order.

An illegitimate child who had never shown his face easily attracted several important ministers in the court of Qing Kingdom.

Now, he said publicly that he wanted Li Chengqian to go to the inner treasury, but he knew very well that Emperor Qing would never let Li Chengqian, who is the prince, take over the inner treasury. awkward position.

But he never expected that Fan Jian, who never spoke easily, would react so violently.

It seems that as long as Li Chengqian has the slightest possibility of taking over the internal treasury, he will not agree to it, nor will he allow such a possibility to happen.

For a moment, Lin Ruofu thought a lot. In the end, he did not speak, but bowed, waiting for Emperor Qing to speak.

Emperor Qing glanced at Fan Jian, twitched the corner of his mouth inadvertently, did not say anything, but turned his gaze to Li Chengqian, and asked, "What does the crown prince think?"

Immediately, Li Chengqian felt an invisible pressure rushing towards his face. If it was an ordinary person, it would be difficult for him to speak smoothly under this force.

Thinking of his predecessor's awe and fear of Emperor Qing in his memory, he understood and agreed with him quite a bit.

At this moment, he naturally chose to hide subconsciously.

Recalling the appearance of his predecessor when he faced Emperor Qing in his memory, he imitated the example, and immediately fell to his knees with a plop, and said with a somewhat pale and frightened face: "Everything about my son comes from Your Majesty. Whatever the subject does, the subject will do, how dare you be good at it."

After the words fell, most of the officials in the Manchu Dynasty sighed and contemptuously appeared in their hearts.

Such a weak character is not a good thing for a prince of a country.

Emperor Qing's face was also a little ugly. Although he was a little stricter, he hoped that the prince would respect and fear him, but he didn't want the prince, whom he had placed high hopes on, to become a respondent.

With such a personality, how can he pass on the throne with confidence?

With a bang, he slapped the case and said sharply: "Look at what you look like, stand up!"

Li Chengqian stood up tremblingly against Emperor Qing's anger, his face became paler, but his heart became calmer.

But should I say it or not, when this body faced Emperor Qing, it seemed that it was instinctively terrified.

He only needs to follow the instinct of this body, and he will be able to perform no differently from his predecessor.

There was a look of hatred in Emperor Qing's eyes, and he said in a deep voice: "You are not young, but you don't do business all day long, you only know how to play around, don't you have nothing to do at all?"

Under Emperor Qing's anger, the court was silent, and the officials rarely saw His Majesty so angry.They just felt so powerful that they almost couldn't breathe, so they couldn't help lowering their heads, swallowing secretly.

In the midst of the silence, Li Chengqian stood up quite firmly, raised his head, looked at Emperor Qing, and said slowly with a bit of fear and firmness: "Your Majesty, I want to run a newspaper."

newspaper?

Doubts appeared in the minds of the ministers, but they quickly remembered what a newspaper was.

Isn't it the thing that His Majesty asked the inner court to do that almost no one cares about, and it is purely a waste of money?
The ministers couldn't help shaking their heads.

They had changed their minds about Li Chengqian daring to speak out their thoughts under the pressure of Emperor Qing, but at the moment they all sneered.

Sure enough, it's playing with things and losing one's ambition, I don't know what it means.

However, Emperor Qing restrained the anger on his face and calmed down.

He looked at his son, who seemed a little weak in the past, and gradually showed some appreciation in his eyes.

It was really beyond his expectation to be able to look at him for so long under pressure.

It seems that after getting sick, he has grown a little.

He was really angry when he heard about going to those dubious places secretly, but the matter has come to this point, if he can make progress, he doesn't have to be too strict.

As for the newspaper, he had heard Ye Qingmei briefly talk about the role of the newspaper, so he personally expended energy to review the content published by the newspaper run by the inner court.

However, in the past few years, he has not seen much of the role of newspapers, and the cost is not small.

Few people care about the tepid ones. In fact, he already has some intentions to suspend the newspaper.

Only out of certain thoughts, this has been maintained.

Li Chengqian made such a request, which can be regarded as sharing his worries.

Moreover, this matter does not involve government affairs, nor does it involve the military, and it does not matter whether it is handed over, whether it succeeds or fails.

At the same time, he can also use this matter to see the ability of the prince he has chosen.

It can be said that there is no harm at all.

The only thing that worried him was that the newspaper was supervised by the inner court alone. If it was handed over to Li Chengqian, it meant that the other party could reach into the inner court.

The inner court is his institution to check and balance the Overwatch Council, and its position is extremely important.

Even the Overwatch Council didn't want the royal family to interfere, let alone the inner court?
After pondering for a while, he said slowly: "The prince wants to take over from the inner court?"

Hearing this, Li Chengqian's heart tightened, and he clearly sensed the scrutiny in Emperor Qing's eyes.

After sorting out the words in his belly, his emotions calmed down a little, and he said in a clear voice: "Your Majesty, I have no such intentions. Although the newspaper has not been published for a long time, I can already see the benefits of educating the world and increasing experience. , as time goes by, it will even be beneficial to our celebration of national literature and Taoism.

If only one newspaper in the inner court was circulated, the grand scene of a hundred flowers blooming would be a little less.

Therefore, Erchen ventured to start another new newspaper to try. "

(End of this chapter)