Minister

199【First year of Yuan Dynasty】

Wei Chi had conceived countless scenes of reuniting with Chen Ang, but none of them made her feel credible after she woke up from the dream.Until this day really came, Wei Chi was still terrified and couldn't believe this sudden luck.

do you know?At that time, I had already put the paperwork for transferring to Nanjing in my sleeve, and I was in a trance for a moment, as if I had deserted and forgot to hand it in.

fate?

Wei Chi had no choice but to use this word to explain the scene in front of him. He saw Chen Ang walking slowly from the end of the hall. It was reality and dreamlike, and the beeping heartbeat made it difficult for her to keep calm.

Everyone is in a trance.

Chen Ang, this long-forgotten name came back. The moment he sat on the dragon chair, almost everyone wanted to open their eyes wide to see if it was really him.

This is real.

Chen Ang's face is unusually vicissitudes, but he is not in a panic, far from the handsome and noble young man many years ago.

He is Chen Su's puppet?

Of course not.

Chen Ang's voice was confident and thick, showing a kind of absolute authority.

The enthronement ceremony was very simple. Before the end of the ceremony, King Qin made a special trip to express that he would lead his troops back to Yulong Pass the next day, and Wang Zhongliang also expressed a similar meaning on behalf of the Wang family.Although the cabinet was still in fear, the officials breathed a sigh of relief.The regime change between two years has made everyone accustomed to such ups and downs.

Chen Entropy's reign title is "Zhenglong", but the fortunes of the country have not prospered as everyone expected. Chen Ang's reign title is "Shiyuan", can everything in the empire start again?

Standing in the tallest palace of Dachen Palace, Chen Ang watched the sunset slowly setting in front of the window, and became the calmest person in the empire.

Dai Tongjin has been lame since his leg was broken that year. Before entering Beijing, he threw away the cane he had used for many years and began to walk with a limp.

"Master Wei is here." Said Dai Tongjin who was sitting on a chair in a strange posture.

Wei Chi looked more nervous than the two of them, so much so that he forgot whether he should salute after entering.Dai Tongjin smiled: "I haven't seen you for many years, but you haven't changed, you still look like that little boy."

There was no one else in the hall, and Chen Ang moved a chair by himself: "I will give you a seat, Mr. Wei."

Wei Chi couldn't laugh, because he wasn't even sure if what he saw was real.

"Lord Wei, you are overly frightened. It seems that we should arrange to see you before the enthronement ceremony." Dai Tongzhen leaned on the chair: "Do you think the emperor looks like an old farmer?"

He really looks like an old farmer, not so much his appearance has changed, but his temperament has changed.

Chen Ang himself sat down: "I used to think that I was superior, ah, you have to forgive me for not using honorifics. After all, I have been a commoner for so many years, and I am used to it." Chen Ang laughed again : "And there is no one else here. Yes, what did I say just now, I am a high-ranking person, whether it is blood or other things, throwing a person like me into such an environment, I have to grow my own vegetables What do you think I will think if I go to an environment where I can only fill my stomach?"

Chen Ang raised his legs mockingly: "It's suffering, but it's also comprehension, Wei Chi, I believe you have comprehended a lot during our absence, but my experience is beyond your imagination. It's not resentment, It's not pain, it's a different understanding, nothing in this world can compare to it."

Dai Tongjin laughed loudly: "One day, we decided to raise some chickens, so we built a chicken shed. Wei Chi, you must have seen a chicken shed. But those chickens just refused to go in. In the middle of the night, we heard There was a sound, and only when I came out did I find that the chicken shed had collapsed. You said how smart these chickens are, they had a premonition."

"Yes," Chen Ang nodded approvingly: "The architectural masterpiece of the idiot prince and the idiot military adviser."

"Wait," Wei Chi rubbed his face, "Your Majesty speaks as if he came from another world."

"Yes, that's another world over there." Dai Tongjin hammered his lame leg.

A barren place, a place where people would literally starve to death.Dai Tongjin looked at Wei Chi's expression and thought, he must have difficulty understanding himself, and he must have become too powerful because he lived in the cave for too long or ate too many bugs.

"Wei Chi, you have done enough, thank you for your unchanging trust over the years." Chen Ang smiled, and wrinkles appeared at the corners of his eyes.

Chen Ang squatted down and held Wei Chi's hand: "Leave it to us now, everything will start again."

Dai Tongjin leaned over and held hands with them.

Wei Chi felt the rough calluses in their palms, which were hard and warm.

"Well," Wei Chi raised his head: "Let's start over."

Outside the window, the sun is setting and the new moon is rising.

The common people in the capital were used to the warlords coming and going, but the bureaucrats were really taken aback.Although King Yan came at a strange time, it is better than King Qin succeeding to the throne. At least the relationship between the vassal king and the ministers in the capital was harmonious before. The only thing to worry about is Li Pan and the like?

Chen Ang's ascension to the throne was as silent as the wind.

At the end of summer, the empire ushered in a bumper harvest, but it was not a good harvest. The people could barely get enough food and clothing for this season. The new emperor seemed to have achieved nothing, but the anger of the people in Jiangnan seemed to be gradually extinguished.

The new emperor, who was known as 'the solution to the urgent need, can sit back and relax' continued to be silent, and the empire was breathing slowly and hard.

As the autumn was coming to an end, an astonishing news came from Nanzhili. A fleet of 20000 people had been prepared, and it would be able to take this year's silk fabrics overseas in no time.

Nanzhili, this pension place seemed to boil over overnight. The officials in the capital were discussing, wondering how Chen Ang managed to conjure up so much money and built so many large ships when disaster relief was difficult.

Zhou Wenyuan soon revealed the answer. Starting from September, imperial officials no longer paid in silver, but changed them to copper coins. There are many types of copper coins, so you don't have to worry about carrying money home.

Not only Zhou Wenyuan was in a good position, but Ji Pan didn't even get punished. From the promotion of copper coins, Chen Ang sent him to the south of the Yangtze River again. It was time to clean up those short-lived loans.

The reintegrated merchants began negotiating face-to-face with officials again.Unexpectedly, Chen Ang did not veto all of Chen Jiao's resolutions, and even kept the settings of the Bank of Accounts to a large extent, and what the Ministry of Accounts brought was not newly minted copper coins, but shiny silver!

The worries of the merchants towards the officials finally dissipated completely after seeing the silver. At this moment, there is nothing that can arouse their emotions more than silver!After two years of market collapse, there are now only [-] of the tens of thousands of large merchants left. After industrial disturbances and wars, they are almost on the verge of collapse. If they are still timid and unwilling to take a step now, they will really be doomed.

Chen Ang said to Wei Chi: Chen Xing was not wrong, and even Chen Entropy was not wrong, but they didn't know that the most difficult moment they created was the last darkness before the empire's prosperity.

The darkest darkness before dawn.

So I'm back, so that this darkness will not bring destruction, but the most glorious dawn.

When winter came, part of the fleet returned to Guangzhou, bringing back the grain and silver exchanged from the country of Wa, as well as the merchant ships of the country of Wa.This food is very necessary, because after experiencing the flood, this year's winter is extremely dry.

In the port of Guangzhou, the merchants on the tall Dutch merchant ship pointed to the small Japanese merchant ship beside them: "When did the Kingdom of Heaven start doing business with them?"

The entourage on the side spread their hands: "The new emperor has a new idea, who knows?"

Ji Pan stood by the Guangzhou port and watched the merchant ships slowly docking, his heart was racing. He always thought that Chen Xing was his Bole, but now he realized that who really understood his talent.

Do businessmen really need the official hat of the empire to be respected?

No.

"Come on, let's go and have a look." Ji Pan laughed heartily for the first time.

Spring came as scheduled, but there was no spring famine. Not only the weavers in Jiangnan and the boatmen in Nanzhili could buy grain with silver, even the officials in the capital found that the copper coins that were not easy to use before could finally be used smoothly. .

Wei Chi was trimming his peonies in the yard. She knew that the business relationship with Monan would not be too long. Once the business was officially established, the road to the Western Regions that had been blocked for thousands of years would be opened again, Chen Ang said. Well, the Western Regions is not a legend. One day, peony flowers can be seen there too.

Then Qi Qige, you must have seen it too, right?

"Master Wei is laughing all by himself?"

Wei Chi handed the flower scissors to Hu Yanglin: "Could it be possible to pull this face like you?"

Hu Yanglin just came to be a guest as usual, but unfortunately he seems to be in a low mood recently, and Wei Chi's good mood can hardly affect him.

Hu Yanglin sighed: "It's okay to tell you directly, I just think that the current emperor is too weak. He has been in power for almost two years, and there is no big movement."

The only big news is that his official salary has become copper coins?what is this?It's not the same as buying things.

Wei Chi smiled and said: "It seems that you complained so much because the emperor didn't vigorously promote you Jin Yiwei."

Yes, there is also Jinyiwei. Today's Jinyiwei is similar to when Huang Gui rebelled, and they didn't even have enough people to come in.It's a bit worse than when my master was a conductor, isn't it?

"Actually, I don't appreciate the emperor's character very much. Generally speaking, I feel too weak."

Maybe it's really "weakness". No one in the world would dare to judge him so directly if it were Chen Xing.

"That's not weakness, that's wisdom." Wei Chi didn't really fight with Populus euphratica.

"That's not necessarily the case," Hu Yanglin, as Jinyiwei, is considered a guard official position, and many details can be seen clearly: "You didn't see the way the emperor talked with Mr. Zhou Ge, it was really gentle and elegant, but Mr. Zhou Ge was so arrogant Very much."

"Mr. Zhou Ge is an airy person." Wei Chi remembered Zhou Wenyuan's usual expressions when speaking, and he was really special as the "chief assistant of the cabinet".

"Hey, I won't discuss this with you. Generally speaking, in your eyes, the emperor is good everywhere." Hu Yanglin waved his hand, expressing that he wanted to end this chicken-to-duck conversation.

Wei Chi felt helpless against Populus euphratica's inexplicable prejudice, but he was not worried, because this was Chen Ang, even if he knew that his Jin Yiwei thought so, he probably wouldn't care.

After sending Populus euphratica away, Wei Chi changed into his clothes, he was going to meet someone who had just returned from Monan.

For so many years, Lu Shengduo has played many people, and now he can finally appear on the street in his "self".When Wei Chi saw him, he couldn't even recognize him for a while. When he recalled his appearance, he might have to go back to Jian'an six years ago, right?

"It seems like a lifetime away." Lu Shengduo commented.

"I hope I didn't disappoint you."

"We didn't let each other down, Wei Chi." Lu Shengduo patted Wei Chi's shoulder affectionately for the first time.

Finally, he could relax and walked into the restaurant like an ordinary person, but Wei Chi still saw Lu Shengduo's eyes flashing like an eagle habitually.

"What did Lord Lu find?" Wei Chi teased.

"Here," Lu Shengduo pointed with his finger: "That Xiao Er was wiping his nose with his sleeve just now... Hey, my joke is really not funny."

Wei Chi couldn't help but laugh, and called the shop waiter over: "Order."

"This is the first decent meal I've eaten. It's been so many years." Lu Shengduo nodded slightly after hearing the name of the dish reported by Wei Chi: "Time flies, you've grown up."

"Master Lu, stop using this sentence, it's like I'm really a child."

"You have grown so much taller in front of me at least." Lu Shengduo gestured.

"Master Lu hasn't grown taller at all."

"Master Wei, your jokes are also not funny."

Both of them couldn't help laughing. During the conversation, the dishes were served.

"The emperor has been in Qiannan for so many years?" Wei Chi was curious about the vicissitudes of life on Chen Ang's face.

"Just staying there has long been caught. We have hidden all over the mountainous area in the west. Once Jiang Songzhen's people touched the village entrance. Fortunately, that day was lucky enough, the dog barked, otherwise he would have really succeeded. .I saw something was wrong, so I quickly put my face on my back and ran from the back door. The three of us didn't even dare to take a breath. We didn't dare to stop until we ran in the mountains for half an hour." Lu Shengduo took a sip of his wine and added: "By the way, muddled noodles is Master Dai. He wants to eat a bowl of noodles, but he doesn't have one. He has to rely on this name to be satisfied."

"After so many years, the emperor has survived."

"It's more than just getting over it? When we got there, let alone the emperor, even Master Dai was about to collapse. You know he broke a leg, and the two of them couldn't even cook for themselves, let alone There is no food." Lu Shengduo chewed the food in his mouth: "So when I really got over it, I changed my mind. I have seen through everything about rights, politics, and everything."

"Master Lu, have you seen it through?"

"I'm not as miserable as they are."

"I saw Mr. Lu's name in the Imperial Academy, and Mr. Lu is a Jinshi of the second list."

"Hehe," Lu Shengduo put down his wine glass, "If that's the case, then I've seen it through."

"Monan is still the same?" Wei Chi thought of him and just came back from beyond the Great Wall.

"We tossed like this and they didn't do anything. Do you think it's still the same?"

"Oh?" Wei Chi was a little nervous.

"King Monan's condition is not very good. You must know that he has no heirs." Lu Shengduo threw a piece of meat into his mouth: "The female emperor may really be the female emperor."

"Oh." Wei Chi swallowed.

Her life seemed to be going in a completely different direction from her own.

"What's more, there is her prince supporting her. You know that person, the one who was given the name of Kuz, the general who attacked the capital."

"I know him," Wei Chi thought to himself, a tall man with blond hair, and even teased me: "He is very good at fighting."

"Wei Chi, have you seen it through?" Lu Shengduo looked thoughtful when he saw Wei Chi.

Wei Chi thought for a long time: "Maybe I'm the only one who didn't think it through."

After drinking for three rounds, both of them have the ability not to get drunk. Xiaoer was a little surprised when he saw the table full of empty jugs and the two people who were not blushing: "Six big coppers."

"Have you started collecting coins?" Wei Chi untied his wallet and took out the money.

Xiao Er smiled mischievously.

Wei Chi avoided his sleeve and put the money in his hand: "Take another plate of lotus leaf snacks, I want to take it away."

"It seems that I can't keep you," Lu Shengduo said with some regret, "I wanted to chat with you again, but the day will be long, see you later."

Looking at Wei Chi's back, Lu Shengduo suddenly felt sad: Maybe it's good to have a family.

"These two days are finally free." Wei Chi took some snacks and asked Qi Yuan for credit: "Before the weather gets hot, let's go out for a ride."

In the end, Qi Yuan chose to ride sideways on the saddle. After all, this is the suburbs of Beijing, and it would be unreasonable for Mrs. Guiwei to straddle a horse.The saddle for side riding was difficult to master, so Wei Chi had to practice with her a few more times.

"Wei Chi."

"Ok?"

Qi Yuan pressed Wei Chi's eyebrows with her finger: "When did you develop a bad habit of frowning from time to time?"

"Is there?" Wei Chi rubbed himself: "Did I frown just now?"

"Well, it's like pretending to be happy."

"how is this possible?!"

"What are you in a hurry for?" Qi Yuan was a little surprised: "Isn't it just a random sentence, why do you care so much?"

"No, no." Wei Chi turned his head and looked in the mirror.

"Come on, let's eat something." Qi Yuan pushed the plate in front of her forward.

Wei Chi took a piece in his mouth and lost his appetite after taking a small mouthful: "Go to sleep first, I want to read a book for a while."

Wei Chi walked to the desk and took a book in his hand. He just felt that the past few months passed too fast, faster than flipping through a book. However, he had to pretend to be busy so that he could deceive Calm yourself down, accept everything, go with everything.

However, the inner self is still not deceived?