I am not in the position of Zen [Three Kingdoms]

When the willows were on the top of the moon, Liu Xie finally finished reviewing today's memorial.

Qin Shihuang, the first memorial reviewer in history, often had to read memorials weighing more than 30 catties all night long, and the number of words may have reached hundreds of thousands of words.Liu Xie didn't give up too much, and today's reading volume is a full 30 million.

After all, the Han Dynasty was still in turmoil, and Liu Xie was worried about many things, so he did it himself.He paid special attention to rectifying the administration of officials, and he had to read all the memorials related to the reporting of officials by the commoner guards.

Since ascension to the throne, all the officials recommended by the ministers of the DPRK and China have been submitted to the emperor's case after detailed background investigations by civilian guards.For corrupt officials, Liu Xie will personally stare at them, regardless of their closeness, they must be punished as they should be, and extrajudicial tolerance is absolutely not allowed.

In addition, he will also randomly check the work of the civilian guards, and read the monthly, quarterly and annual work reports of each department.There are many departments under the command of the commoner guards, including the hotel department, carpentry department, textile department, military intelligence department, supervision department, agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery department, etc. Liu Xie called them to the hall as soon as inspiration came, and talked with various ministers about some modern advanced Ideas and methods, asking about feasibility.In this way, there are too many things to be busy every day.

Fortunately, modern people are very adaptable to fast reading and are best at accepting fragmented information. Liu Xie was used to reading novels with millions of words when he was in school.He is good at grasping key points, logical and clear, and his reading efficiency is very high, and he rarely spends all night reviewing memorials.

Liu Xie pushed the memorial to the side, disregarding the majesty of the emperor, lazily stood up and did chest expansion exercises and stretching exercises. After a while, he straightened up and asked: "Is there a recommendation form for today, please submit it."

He thought to himself: It is absolutely impossible to go on like this, not to mention that it is easy to be exhausted like Qin Shihuang.Big and small matters are all judged and supervised by one person, and it is easy to be biased.And if he is absent for a day, there will be chaos.It is still necessary to continuously improve the process handling mechanism and recruit more professionals. At least some trivial matters should not be watched by him personally.

"No!" Xiao Huangmen hurriedly presented it.

There are too few advisers in Beijing that can be relied on.Liu Xie followed today's official recommendation form, and after reading it twice, he couldn't find any familiar names. He couldn't help but sighed deeply: Where can I find Fazheng, Pang Tong and other advisers in this vast crowd?I only hate that when I was watching Romance and Romance of the Three Kingdoms, I only cared about watching the excitement, but now I can't think of the location of the advisers after thinking hard in my mind.

Recently, the commoner guards found Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi.These two surnames are rare, and the two are from rich families, so it is relatively easy to find them.But Zhuge Liang is only nine years old this year, and Sima Yi is only 11 years old, and they are still in the grade of studying at home. How can we share his worries?

Under everyone's puzzled eyes, Liu Xie ordered the two families to send their two sons to study in Luoyangmen.It's already on the road now, no matter what, let's keep it under your nose first.

However, Bu Yiwei has recently received news that the Zhou family in Lujiang has a son named Zhou Yu, who is fifteen years old, has good looks and fine rhythm.It's a pity that he is studying abroad, it seems that he went to Yanzhou, and he will not be able to find him for a while.It's really far away that can't quench thirst, Liu Xie rested his cheeks and sighed: "Speaking of which, it seems that Tian Feng hasn't replied for several days?"

Bu Yiwei replied: "Reporting to Your Majesty, Dean Tian said last time that everything is going well. If there are no accidents, he will lead the newly surrendered 2000 troops to Yunzhong County and meet with General Lu. He will send the next letter back."

"Where are the other three thousand recruits?"

"The news just came at noon today, and we will arrive in Hanoi County in two days."

"It's good to pay attention to their movements, for fear that they will repeat themselves in the future. Alright, go down."

Liu Xie put the recommendation form aside and told Xiao Huangmen: "You copy the list and hand it over to the inspector general tomorrow morning."

"promise!"

Seeing that the Son of Heaven seems to have finished his work for the time being, Xiao Huangmen stepped forward with a wink: "Your Majesty, are you going to eat?"

Liu Xie was also hungry, nodded: "Let's pass it on."

"Your Majesty, wait a moment, and use this pockmark fruit pad to pad your stomach first." Xiao Huangmen said, and took out a plate of pastries from the vermilion food box he was carrying.

"It's just right, I'm tired of eating glutinous rice and peach blossom glutinous rice." Liu Xie picked up one: "Hey, fried beans and sesame are added to today's dessert?"

Xiao Huangmen smiled flatteringly: "That's right, it's covered with a layer of white sugar, so it should taste good."

Liu Xie put down his chopsticks after eating one, and asked, "Isn't this easy to make?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the process is not complicated, it's just a matter of time and effort. In the beginning, you have to pound the steamed glutinous rice into a pulp, and beat it repeatedly to form small balls. It's just a bit of work."

"There's no need to waste time like this. This kind of fruit is delicious after frying it." Liu Xie thought for a while: "Speaking of which, do you know how much sesame oil costs a tael?"

Xiao Huangmen showed a troubled look on his face: "Reporting to Your Majesty, I don't know very well, so I have to ask for a while. But I know that the cultivation of flax in the Central Plains is only a matter of a hundred years, and the flax produced in the Central Plains is small. , not as fat as the ones from Hudi in the north, and the oil is less, so the price of flax oil is very high."

Liu Xie didn't pay attention to this issue before, so he asked casually: "Then what kind of oil do the common people eat?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, how can ordinary people have such a blessing to eat oil every day? At most, they use lard ointment to cook some dishes to taste. Even officials and petty officials with low salaries cannot eat sesame oil. There is no iron pan for cooking, which is why they like the food in Luoyang Canteen so much."

"Didn't you squeeze the oil out of the bean?"

The little yellow gate and the guards in the hall looked at me and I looked at you, they all shook their heads and said, "I've never heard of it."

Shu is also soybean. Although the oil yield is not comparable to that of flax and rapeseed, soybean is widely planted, and it is a kind of crop that saves manpower when planted, and the cost should be low.Liu Xieqi asked: "Could it be that flax is the only crop that extracts oil from the field?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, I have never heard of using other things to extract oil, but lard ointment, butter, sheep fat and dog fat are common."

Liu Xie understood. At this time, vegetable oil was a luxury product, and flax oil was the dominant product. Soybean oil and rapeseed oil had not yet appeared.Speaking of which, because iron was strictly controlled by the imperial court, iron pots were only used by princes, nobles and soldiers for meals at this time.He sighed: "It seems that ordinary people can't even eat stir-fried vegetables."

He thought carefully: At this time, extracting oil should be the most laborious and inefficient method of pounding. What tool should be used to squeeze the oil?It seems to be the method of using levers and wedges, but Liu Xie can't draw the specific drawings, and can only inspire the ancient skilled craftsmen.

This meal was destined to be restless, Liu Xie had just eaten half of the noodles with scallion oil, and had just eaten a few mouthfuls of braised pork knuckle when Xigui was poking his head at the door.

"Come in." Liu Xie put down the sauce elbow.

The little yellow door next to him brought the washbasin with a wink, and Liu Xie asked while washing his hands, "What's wrong with the Minister of Rites?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, Wang Shangshu has passed out." Xigui said in a distressed way: "I don't want to disturb Your Majesty, I'm really... worried that he just passed out like this. If there is something wrong, I can't explain it to you."

Liu Xieqi said: "How many hours has it been since we were locked in? Is this unbearable?"

"Hey, although the literati claim to be proud and upright, they are weak and timid. This Wang Shangshu just yelled hoarsely for an hour, and now he has passed out."

After going to court, Liu Xie directly ordered someone to lock the Minister of Rites into a small black room.The small black room was prepared by Liu Xie a long time ago to deal with all kinds of dissatisfaction.

This is a wooden house that can only accommodate one person. After locking the door and covering the outside with a black cloth, no light can penetrate.People cannot stand up, lie down, or sit comfortably in it.There is no light, no sound, and you can't sit or lie down. You can only curl up in it with your body bent and bent. After a long time in it, it can drive people crazy.

The group of people in the Ministry of Rites wrote letters repeatedly to obstruct various changes.Wang Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites was born in a powerful family with a lot of real estate and servants in Luoyang. Relying on his family power, he has violated the emperor's orders several times.

"It will take at least a few days to be effective." Thinking of some criminal investigation methods he has seen in modern times, Liu Xie ruthlessly gave suggestions, his small face was as cold as the autumn wind sweeping leaves against the enemy: "You can uncover the black cloth , Use a silver needle to poke through the gap to wake people up."

Xigui quickly responded, "No!"

After Xigui went down, Liu Xie continued to gnaw on his pork knuckles, and ordered: "Let Zhang Qiaoshou come over tomorrow afternoon, by the way, I'll go get two pots of soybeans later."

Xiao Huangmen thought that the Son of Heaven wanted to try the common food eaten by the common people, and said with a smile, "Your Majesty wants to eat fried soybeans, but do you need to add more salt?"

"No, raw beans are enough, they have just been harvested this year." Liu Xie said thoughtfully, seeing that you have never seen bean sprouts before, let me make something for you.

At this time, Bu Yiwei came with a letter from Feige from Bingzhou: "Your Majesty, there is a letter from General Lu."

Because Liu Xie was afraid of delaying the battle, he gave an order in the palace that no matter what he was doing, all the flying pigeons from the frontier would be sent to his case immediately, so the civilian guards dared to come Disturb the emperor's meal.

Liu Xie ordered: "You guys go down first, Xu Chu comes over and reads."