The emperor is always bullied and crying [wearing books]

Zheng Silian retreated out of the private room in embarrassment, cold sweat broke out from his temples, and when he left Gu Lizhao's private room, his complexion suddenly changed.

His hands were tightly clenched into fists, and the expression in his eyes was panic and resentment.

really!When Gu Xuan came, it was right to feel that his status might not be guaranteed.

Isn't it?Before long, Gu Xuan was about to squeeze himself down.Now that Gu Xuan has no rank and no job, it doesn't mean that he will still have no rank and no job in the future.

Zheng Silian thought in his heart: I have been with Mr. Gu for more than ten years before I became a seventh-rank knife and pen official.The promotion of ordinary officials, if there is no recommendation from the adults above, must rely on the evaluation of officials over the years as a reference.

Mr. Gu has never recommended me, but there is no guarantee that he will not recommend Gu Xuan.When the time comes, Gu Xuan will suddenly become my boss or be on an equal footing with me...

I'm really not reconciled!I have worked hard for more than ten years to be a seventh-rank official, and Gu Xuan has only been here for a few days, why should he?Why squeeze me down? !

With hatred in his eyes, Zheng Silian came to the archive room and knocked on the door.

The door is open, and the knocking is only to alert someone to come.

Gu Xuan raised his head and saw Zheng Silian, his face showed a dazed look of waking up after copying the account books. He put down his pen, stood up, walked up to Zheng Silian, bowed his hands and saluted: "I've seen you, my lord."

Then he smiled and asked, "What other orders does your lord have for coming here?"

Zheng Silian forced a smile on his face, and said to Gu Xuan: "Master Gu called you, maybe he has something to do with you. Go quickly, don't keep Master Gu waiting."

After hearing this, Gu Xuan saluted, "Thank you sir for passing the message." After saying that, he left the file room and went to Gu Lizhao's public house.

Zheng Silian watched Gu Xuan turn the corner of the corridor with a pair of gloomy eyes.

Gu Xuan's strides suddenly stopped when he turned the corner, he turned his neck to the left shoulder and glanced back, his eyes were as sharp as a goshawk and a wind wolf.

Gu Xuan came to Gu Lizhao's office. Gu Lizhao was pacing in the office with his hands behind his back. Seeing him like that, Gu Xuan's eyelids drooped for two seconds, and when he lifted them up, his face was full of respect.

Standing outside the threshold, he saluted Gu Lizhao: "My lord, are you looking for me?"

Gu Lizhao stood in the middle of the ground in front of the desk, looked at Gu Xuan, and said, "Come in and talk."

Gu Xuan lifted the hem of his clothes, stepped over the threshold, and walked in front of Gu Lizhao.

Gu Lizhao asked him: "When will you be able to finish copying the account books of various places you want to copy? What is the name of those account books? When can you come to the public house to serve?"

When Gu Xuan heard the words "you want to copy", he paused in his heart!Zheng Silian felt sick in his heart.

On the surface, he was very natural, and said to Gu Lizhao obediently: "If you go back to your lord, there are a lot of account books, and I will need a while. However, if you are a little diligent during the noon break, you can handle almost everything, and you can stay in the public house for the rest of the time. Just I'm afraid that my clumsy hands will displease the master."

Speaking of helping Gu Lizhao to sit down, he knelt down and rubbed Gu Lizhao's knees. Gu Lizhao let out a long sigh of relief.

This morning, I knelt again and again for a long time, and my knees were really uncomfortable.

Gu Xuan heard him breathe a sigh of relief, and called out cordially: "Master," and then asked: "Master seems to be a little worried, the matter between you and Master Ni, the emperor should be vigilant in the open and rewarded in secret, and then turned over The old man is right, the master should not be for the matter of more than ten days ago. Could it be that it is the construction of the Dayun Mountain Palace, Master Ni is stuck with the approval slip and is unwilling to allocate money to the Ministry of Industry?"

Gu Lizhao looked at Gu Xuan steadfastly, and Gu Xuan was so terrified by him that he even began to wonder if he had said something wrong.

In the end, Gu Li Zhaoxu helped him to stand up.

Gu Lizhao looked at Gu Xuan with complicated eyes: I never thought that I have so many sons, and the son who inherited my intelligence and wisdom turned out to be Gu Xuan!

Gu Lizhao said at this time: "What can you do?"

Gu Xuan pondered for a while, before considering what to do with Gu Lizhao, and said to Gu Lizhao: "Should we take it step by step and turn it into reimbursement if the money is not approved? The account will be settled by the account department, and the profit on your side will be paid by the merchant?"

Gu Lizhao was stunned for a moment, and then read it again and again: "If you don't approve the money, it will be reimbursed? If you don't approve the money, it will be reimbursed..."

He suddenly frowned, and said to Gu Xuan, "What if the household department doesn't reimburse you?"

Gu Xuan said: "Why does the master have to go to Ni Shangshu? Report to the emperor about the construction of the Dayun Mountain Palace. As long as the money spent on the construction of the Dayun Mountain Palace is spent and the progress of the fortifications is within a reasonable range, the Emperor will not be concerned about the construction of the Dayun Mountain Palace. If you are satisfied, the settlement of the IOUs will naturally be assigned to the account department, and will no longer be under our control. If Ni Shangshu and the account department officials can't handle the account checking, reconciliation, payment, and cancellation of accounts, It is their responsibility, we only need to be responsible for the construction of the Dayun Mountain Palace."

Gu Lizhao was still a little hesitant. After all, for a project as big as the Dayun Mountain Palace, if money is not approved, those merchants will sell them materials?

"What if the merchant refuses to pay the IOU?"

Gu Xuan: "Master, don't worry, with the royal brand, some merchants are willing to take a risk to get a share of the pie. It takes about one month to three months to settle the money once."

Gu Lizhao was silent, and after a while he said: "I'll think about it."

When Gu Lizhao used to fish for money, he made fake accounts and reconciled with the account department to write off the accounts after he approved the money from the account department.

For example, he bought a batch of wood with 100 taels of silver, but it was written in the account that he bought the batch of wood with 120 taels of silver.

According to Gu Xuan's method.

That is-

If he buys wood for 100 taels of silver from a merchant, the merchant will give him 20 taels of silver after receiving the money from the household department.

The former is "fair and aboveboard" corruption.

The latter is "sneaky" fishing for oil and water.

The former received money from the Ministry of Industry.

The latter took the money from the merchant.

hiss--

If that old man Ni Jude really doesn't approve the money, then this is indeed a good idea.

He said to Gu Xuan: "Let me think about it more carefully." He waved his hand to let Gu Xuan go down.

Gu Xuan was about to leave, but at the door came a servant of the third-rank Ministry of Industry, whose surname was Huang.Stand still at the door and greet Gu Lizhao.

Gu Xuan stepped aside and saluted Huang Shilang.

Gu Lizhao: "What's the matter?"

Huang Shilang smiled and said: "My lord, Wanfu Mountain is in full bloom with peach blossoms. In order to congratulate your lord on your recovery, the officials and the others prepared a little wine in the peach garden, and please show your respect."

Gu Lizhao liked fine wine, beauty, and beauties the most in his life, and when he heard it now, his heart moved.He has been bedridden at home for more than ten days, and he has long been bored.

Hearing this, he immediately nodded and said, "That's fine. We'll get together after I'm on duty."

Huang Shilang responded with a smile again and again, as if it was a great honor for Gu Lizhao to eat with his face.

At this time, Gu Lizhao said to Gu Xuan who was standing still at the door: "Gu Xuan, you go too."

Gu Xuan cupped his hands and saluted: "Yes."

At this time, Huang Shilang looked at Gu Xuan specially. Gu Xuan performed quite well in the fight between Mr. Gu and Ni Shangshu last time. At that time, Huang Shilang felt that Gu Xuan was quite capable.

However, Gu Xuan stayed at home to serve Gu Lizhao for more than ten days in a row, and did not come to work in the official office of the Ministry of Industry. Seeing you now, I found that Gu Xuan and Gu Lizhao had similar lips, noses, and foreheads.

There was a sudden clarity in my heart.

Then he smiled at Gu Xuan.

Gu Xuan returned a salute before leaving.

After a busy day, the official office of the Ministry of Industry was on duty. Gu Xuan followed Gu Lizhao into the carriage, and several carriages headed towards Wanfu Mountain.

There is a royal temple in Wanfu Mountain, called Huangjue Temple.

There are several hundred-year-old peach trees in Huangjue Temple. The tree trunks are thick and the branches are strong. When the peach blossoms bloom every year, the peach blossoms are dense, like crimson clouds.

Extremely beautiful and prosperous.

And the mountain is full of peach blossoms.

Every summer, the peaches from Wanfu Mountain can supply the needs of the whole of Kyoto.

When approaching the top of the mountain, the carriage stopped.

One is to respect the Buddha. After all, it is only by walking up in front of the Buddha that he appears sincere.

The second is to pay homage to the royal family. After all, only members of the royal family drive the carriage to the door.

When they arrived at Taohuayuan halfway up the mountain, they stopped their carriages and got down to walk.The fallen flowers in the mountains are colorful, the clouds are steaming, the Ulsan wind is cool and the flowers are fragrant, and a group of officials are walking on the mountain road, heading towards the Peach Blossom Garden.

As soon as I arrived at the gate of Taohuayuan, several monks came out facing me.

The monk at the front is an old man, his eyebrows are longer than his chin, his face is kind, his eyes are full of wisdom, and his whole body is full of Buddha charm.

He was carrying a bamboo basket, wearing straw sandals, and tied his sleeves and trousers.

There are fresh and tender peach blossoms in the bamboo basket.

He was accompanied by two big monks aged seventeen or eighteen, and three young monks aged seven to ten.There are peach blossoms in the baskets.

When all the officials saw the old monk, they all showed surprise and surprise.

One after another, they greeted the Buddha and said, "Master Kongzhi!"

Master Kongzhi also saluted everyone with a smile, and said: "Peach blossoms are in full bloom, are you here to taste the fun of the season?"

Gu Lizhao spoke with a very respectful tone, and said, "Master, there is a Ming Buddhist Temple in Wanfu Mountain, and there is a living Buddha like you. We are here to bathe in the Buddha's light."

The crowd complied.

"Excellent, excellent." Master Kongzhi said with a smile, "Everyone please go ahead, I hope you can have fun in the mountains."

Everyone saluted again, gave way, and respectfully asked Master Kongzhi to go first.

At this time, Gu Lizhao looked at Gu Xuan who was holding a cloak in his hand, afraid that he would catch a cold later at night, and thoughtful about everything, and suddenly called Kong Zhi to stop.

"Grandmaster!"

Master Kongzhi immediately stopped, turned his whole body to Gu Lizhao, saluted, and asked, "What's the matter with the benefactor?"

Gu Lizhao smiled back at Master Kongzhi and said, "Master, how can we meet by chance? I think it's because of fate. I'm planning to go to Mingfo Temple to see the master recently, please ask the master to help me take a look at my son's fate."

Gu Xuan was taken aback.

The heart hangs.

Kong Zhi immediately looked at Gu Xuan, Gu Xuan was the youngest, in line with his son status.

All the officials looked at Gu Xuan, after all, only Gu Xuan's surname was Gu among the officials here.

Zheng Silian: "!!"

Gu Xuan is Master Gu's son?

Why doesn't he know?

correct!

Gu Xuan often opens and closes his mouth "Master".

The other servants and guards in Dingbeibo's mansion all called "Uncle".

These officials' subordinates are all called "adults".

Zheng Silian was stunned for a moment, and wanted to smash his own brains: Why didn't I please Gu Xuan when he first came?And let him sit on the bench?

Gu Lizhao said again at this time: "It's his fate whether it's good or not. You have worked so hard, master. When you turn back, you will definitely go to Huangjue Temple to pray for the whole family."

Kong Zhi nodded, and Gu Lizhao gently pushed Gu Xuan.

Gu Xuan took a deep breath, took two steps forward, and greeted Kong Zhi respectfully.

Kong Zhizai looked at Gu Xuan carefully for a while, and his frown became more and more wrinkled.

Everyone was very curious.

Only Gu Xuan was worried.

This feeling similar to life and death in the hands of others is not comfortable at all.If the Master Kong Zhi in front of him said that his fate is very bad, all the efforts he had made before would be in vain.

And, never get up again.He would only be kicked heavily into the quagmire, unable to turn over.

At this time, Kongzhi asked Gu Lizhao: "Birth date."

Gu Lizhao thought about it, and reported it accurately.He still remembered the time when the servants put down the coffin and ran over to him and told him, "A baby was born in the coffin, crying" on his birthday.

Kong Zhi looked at Gu Xuan, then pinched his fingers and calculated again and again.

Then a few steps forward, Gu Lizhao squatted down and listened.

Kong Zhi whispered a few words to him, then took the big monk and the young monk and they left.

Seeing Gu Lizhao's slightly joyful expression, Gu Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, and then thought to himself: What did Master Kongzhi say?

Gu Lizhao looked at Gu Xuan at this moment, patted him on the shoulder, and then called everyone to enter Taohuayuan together.