As a salted fish, I was forced to become the teacher of all ages

After saying that, Xu Dacheng turned around and left.

Although his back looks extremely bleak, in fact, he admires Hua Manlou in his heart: it is so simple to play with the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, even the elders have not seen the clue, there is still someone who can understand this monster Treat it?

Seeing him like this, several big brothers were a little at a loss.

According to common sense, even if Emperor Guangxing fell ill, he should invite these elders to give instructions. The more serious the illness, the more arrangements should be made.

But looking at Xu Dacheng's appearance now, it is clear that Emperor Guangxing is determined not to wait for a few days to recover, so there is only one possibility if he does not summon him: Emperor Guangxing has fallen into a state of unconsciousness at this time, and even the oral order is not enough. It was passed on by the queen mother or queen, in order to make the officials less flustered.

Things have gotten so serious?

The big bosses who were thinking about each other looked at each other for a while, and the elder Zeng Ge said: "Let's go and get busy first, the court situation must not be messed up!"

……

There was no trace of the festivities in the palace early in the morning, and the palace people also bowed their heads and walked quickly. Those with good eyesight had already changed their auspicious clothes, and even if they had nothing to do, they had to find something to do for themselves, so as not to hinder the master's Eye.

After the courtiers came out of the Fengtian Hall, they went to the Taimiao mournfully and wiped their tears, and returned to the yamen with sighs or anger. The news that Emperor Guangxing was so angry that he fell ill spread in the capital. .

I said earlier that the Guangxing Dynasty was known as Zhongxing, and Emperor Guangxing was also an emperor loved by the people, and since the Huamanlou released hot air balloons to create auspiciousness, Emperor Guangxing has really cast a layer of orders. The color of the sky—sheep Tongxiang, the sound of sheep coming from the hot air balloon, isn't that auspicious?

Therefore, when the news spread, many people mourned unceasingly. They spontaneously came to the Meridian Gate and knelt down, facing the palace with tears in their eyes and praying to Emperor Guangxing.

In the afternoon, more and more people gathered, and the street in front of the Meridian Gate was full of common people, and even some common people came from the porridge place outside the south gate, knelt down and cried bitterly—the meal they ate at noon was worthless. It was given by the emperor, such a good person, how can he be sick if he is sick?

Shuntian Mansion and Wucheng Bingmasi heard that many people gathered and rushed to work, and what they saw was the grand occasion of people praying for blessings, and everyone was stunned.

It's been a long time. In the past, I only listened to the unruly people making troubles, but now I see the people praying for His Majesty. This...

After looking at each other for a while, the soldiers also knelt aside.

When Emperor Guangxing learned that many people knelt outside the palace to pray for him, he was moved to tears.

People are neither stupid nor blind.

Just like a person drinks water, he knows whether he is warm or not, and he knows whether life is going well or not.Perhaps these people will never see Emperor Guangxing in their lifetime, but the people have seen the changes in life since the Guangxing Dynasty. How can this be wiped out by a few censors who don't know the so-called casually?

If it weren't for the fact that he had to accompany Hua Manlou in acting to deal with those disgraceful civil servants, Emperor Guangxing would have stood up and returned to work on the spot—the ministers can be abandoned, and the people can't be blamed!

The grand occasion of people praying for blessings made Shen Deyuan and his group's so-called "for the country and the people of the world" completely untenable, and when they heard that they were angry with Emperor Guangxing for this, the group of people It can be said that the reputation was completely rotten. Some angry people directly blocked the Shen's residence, and in an instant they turned into thugs and used rotten eggs and rotten vegetables to paste the gate of the Shen's residence. The sound of cursing continued until the curfew.

The mansions of other people are not so good, even the vegetable sellers in the vegetable market refused to sell vegetables to these people's homes, and even said that they would rather feed pigs than sell them to these white-eyed wolves.

And all this, more than [-] civil officials who were imprisoned in the Taimiao did not know, but even so, they were not having a good time at the moment, and it could be said that they wanted to die.

325. Zhao's Bamboo Shoots

The Taimiao is located on the side of the Meridian Gate, covering an area of ​​more than [-] mu, divided into two halls, east and west.

The specific function of the West Hall is similar to that of the Lingyan Pavilion in the Tang Dynasty. It enshrines the ranks and portraits of Da Zhao’s heroes. The so-called Peixiang Taimiao refers to this, while the East Hall enshrines the ranks and portraits of the emperors of Da Zhao.

More than [-] civil servants headed by Shen Deyuan are now kneeling in the East Hall, their eyes are dull, their eyes are dull, and they don't know what to do.

Just because I got up early in the morning and prepared to attend the Empress Dowager's birthday banquet. After making do with it, I was supposed to have a good meal in the palace, but they killed themselves and the birthday banquet was gone, so...

It was getting dark, and the group of people hadn't had any water or rice, and they were already fainting from hunger.

But at this stall, who has the face to say that he is hungry after making the emperor sick?

Moreover, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince seemed to have forgotten that there were about twenty other people here, so he ignored them at all, and didn't even give him a glass of water.

But then again, introspection, who eats and drinks a lot during introspection?

Gollum...

Someone's stomach made a sound, reminding everyone that it was time to eat.

If you didn't realize this, or if you didn't pay attention to your stomach and focus on other things, you might be able to endure hunger for a while longer, but after one after another of the noises were connected together, it seemed to be in this empty Taimiao. It seems that the sound has been amplified a lot, and there is nothing to distract attention in the Taimiao, so this is simply unbearable.

At some point, someone began to sob.

This is the consistent nature of this kind of civil servants, how righteous they are when they invite them to buy straight names, and how humble they are when they are wronged.

At this moment, a faint voice of dialogue came from outside the hall: "...Have you eaten?"

"Eat, today's food is really rich!"

"Isn't it? You can't even think about these things before entering the palace!"

"Yes! Beaulieu vegetables, broiled clams, fried prawns, frog legs, chicken breasts with bamboo shoots, and three other things, boiled puffer fish, cockles with distiller's lees, roasted venison, stuffed belly, frozen fish in ginger vinegar, raw beef, flowers Pearls, roasted loach, vinegar rot, jellyfish stew, fried chicken, roasted duck, a twist of pearl..."

Listening to this tone, it seems that two young eunuchs on duty in the palace are talking, and it is this dialogue that makes the group of people in the palace extremely angry: all the good things we should eat have been ruined by you slaves?

and……

From the long list of dish names, it can be seen how much Emperor Guangxing cared about this birthday banquet, and it can be heard that this group of people is even more hungry, and some people continue to swallow their saliva.

"Don't talk about it, I'm hungry again."

"I don't know if there will be such delicious food tomorrow."

"I don't think there will be any next year! These are the dishes that will be served at today's birthday banquet, but the birthday banquet..."

"that's true."

"But it's worth it to eat this once in a lifetime!"

This is even more worrying.

A few censors immediately wanted to get up and reprimand——Emperor Guangxing is kind, so these people in the palace have a better life, so no one cares about chatting at the gate of the Taimiao, but this does not mean that there is really no limit here. There was no chat along the way.

The only problem is, how can you reprimand others when you reflect on yourself?And what's the matter with the dignified censor, taking out his anger on two young eunuchs?

After trying to understand this, these people instantly became wilted.

The chatter outside the hall came again vaguely, this time they started talking about the dishes, such as how delicious a certain dish is, how delicate a certain dish is, how radiant a person feels after eating a certain dish, not to mention the taste , Even the taste and saltiness have to be described clearly and in detail.

In the end, for some reason, the two of them started arguing and debating whether the zongzi should be sweet or salty.

The civil servants in the palace just listened dryly, and finally more people cried out: If I knew it was like this, why bother?

After an unknown amount of time, there was finally no sound outside the door, and these people began to doze off every now and then.

Work at sunrise and rest at sunset, people these days are doing this.Despite the hunger panic, the biological clock is still on time, but...

Choking!

As we all know, the Taimiao has always been brightly lit, and in order to make the candlelight brighter, a bronze mirror will be placed behind the candle.

And when the candles are always burned out, in order to keep the lights alive, the little eunuch on duty will come to light new wax from time to time, but for some reason he knocked over the bronze mirror...

Just imagine, needles can be heard in Taimiao, and no one will make noise nearby, so as not to disturb the rest of the ancestors. In this way, the sound of the bronze mirror falling to the ground is very abrupt and harsh, so the little eunuch was scared. His face turned pale, and he knelt down and kowtowed desperately to a bunch of rankings, shouting as he kowtowed: "Your servant is wrong, your servant is guilty..."

I don't know if it was because he was too young or he didn't know how to apologize, but he just yelled these two words over and over again, which was extremely magical.

This time, the civil servants were depressed.

It was so hard to endure hunger and fell asleep, but you came here?

But then they discovered that the depression was early: there was no end to the night, and every time they were able to take a nap, someone would make a sound—the little eunuch on duty fell asleep and dreamed of being chased and killed. Screaming like a pig, a guard with a loud voice came when the shift was changed, and the person who knocked the watch kept wandering in front of the Taimiao for some reason, as if telling the time to the ancestors...

It was finally dawn, and the civil servants were sleepy and hungry, and it was true that they couldn't bear it.

You know, Jingguan can reach the fourth and fifth ranks, and they are generally older, so after staying up all night without a drop of rice, the sour feeling is like cultivating immortals.

It would be fine if the matter ended today, but everyone knew that this matter would never end.

The so-called sickness comes like a mountain, and the sickness goes like a thread. How can it be so easy to recover after being so angry?

And now this group of people don't even dare to cry anymore, even if they shed tears, they can't wait to lick them back into their mouths—oh, it's June, even though it's cooler in the temple, it's still a day anyway, a whole day in the scorching heat If you don't drink water in the sky, you will kill yourself!

and so……

Does His Royal Highness want me to die of thirst here?

Such an idea was born in everyone's heart.

But obviously, Zhao Ren...or Hua Manlou didn't intend to kill them at all: just after dawn, two young eunuchs walked in, one was holding a stack of bowls, the other was carrying a large bucket, and after the two entered, Without saying a word, he started to distribute the bowls, and then served them the contents of the bucket.

"This... what is this?"

Looking at the food in the bowl, everyone was stunned.

The little eunuch said calmly, "Yellow rice porridge."

"Is this yellow rice porridge?" Lu Xingchang, the left councilor of the general administration, called out in the crowd: "How can yellow rice porridge be so... so vulgar?"

That's right, this is the porridge that Zhao Ren tasted when he went to Erhu's house when he was in Xishan.

The little eunuch looked at Lu Xingchang contemptuously, and said, "My lord, what you eat is not called yellow rice porridge, that is called yellow rice delicacy, this is the real yellow rice porridge."

Lu Xingchang's teeth were sore: "This... is this something that people eat?"

But when the little lady overheard this complaint, she suddenly became angry: "How do you talk? I grew up eating this!"

Lu Xingchang was stunned: "But this..."

"What is this?" The little eunuch said angrily: "It's not just me, how many people in the world live by pointing to this thing. Although people's lives are cheap, they are all human beings. Are they not human anymore?"

Another young eunuch also said angrily: "My lords have reprimanded the palace for being too extravagant before, so His Royal Highness ordered that everyone in the palace eat this today, even the empress and the empress dowager. Those of us are fine, but according to what you mean, the two empresses and His Royal Highness are not human?"

"This...I'm not..." Lu Xingchang's brain couldn't keep up after a sleepless night, so he couldn't even refute.

"My lords are the ones who say that spending is extravagant, but when His Royal Highness personally sets an example and eats the same food as the common people, your lords are so talkative. What do you want His Highness to do to be satisfied?"

"A young man who reads little doesn't understand so many principles, but one can still tell the difference between the superior and the inferior. His Highness and other nobles can eat it, but this adult can't eat it? Does this mean that an adult is more noble than His Highness?"

"You! You're looking for death!" Secretary of the General Administration Zuo Counselor, a dignified fifth-rank official, was so rushed by two eloquent little eunuchs, that he even raised his hand to beat him...

But the two young eunuchs were happy and fearless, and looked at him with more and more contempt: "In front of the tablet of the ancestors, you actually want to beat someone?"

"This..." Lu Xingchang was dumbfounded again.

"It's no wonder people say that the civil servants are too arrogant, and it's no wonder that His Majesty can get mad."

"In any case, these people are justified. Your Majesty is neither on the left nor on the right. Don't you want to be mad?"

"Let's go, let's report to His Highness, saying that these grown-ups can't eat such crude pig food."

"Well, and because he was dissatisfied with eating, he beat people..."

The two left just like that while talking, leaving alone Lu Xingchang who still didn't react, standing there, trembling with anger.

But soon he couldn't get angry, because the only food was taken away by the two young eunuchs - including other people's.

"Everyone... you also think that thing is not edible... right?" Lu Xingchang took two steps back as he saw the fire-breathing eyes of a group of people.

No one spoke, and everyone was staring at him, including Shen Deyuan who had been pushed aside by everyone.

No matter how you can't eat it, but it is soup after all, which can quench your thirst. After he makes such a fuss, everyone even loses this food, so don't you have to get mad at him?

Then...

After finally staying up until noon, everyone thought it was time to have a meal, but this time it was two imperial guards who came in, and what they sent was translucent, clear, pure natural and pollution-free, very thirst-quenching in summer, taken from The unboiled natural well water in the well made a group of civil servants cry with joy... or because of something else, anyway, no one cherishes tears now.

"In the words of the queen mother, take the bamboo shoots, you have taken all the bamboo shoots of Dazhao!" Zhao Ren, who was standing outside the Taimiao eavesdropping, laughed wildly.

"Yeah, what a crime!" Hua Manlou sighed leisurely.

(3 to 7K! I can see it, you don’t want me to rest at all, and you don’t like to watch any relationship lines at all, don’t you like to watch cheaters after talking nonsense for a long time?)

326. Hidden merit and fame

Huamanlou didn't do everything right, sooner or later he would ask someone to give these civil servants some yellow rice porridge, and after seeing the familiar yellow rice porridge again, even Lu Xingchang didn't talk too much, picked it up He drank the bowl all at once, and finally even licked the bowl clean.

That scene was too infiltrating.

In the first two days, there were still people who were upset, thinking that after leaving the imperial temple, they would definitely accuse the crown prince of abusing scholar-bureaucrats, but when they first thought about it, they looked frustrated—the little eunuch made it clear that it was because They themselves categorically accused the palace of extravagant expenses, so the prince tried his best to reduce the expenses.

If this is the case, some people still think that this matter is pure nonsense, just to torment them - how can the crown prince eat something that is not as good as swill?But……

Zhao Ren appeared in the afternoon of the second day. After scolding the group of people, he drank the yellow rice porridge that was not eaten by human beings in front of them and in front of the ancestors. And when it was over, everyone was speechless.

What can I say?

If we go on, it really becomes what the little eunuch said that the civil servants are justified no matter what they do - they are the ones who want the royal family to save money, and they are the ones who want to eat better. If this kind of self-contradictory thing If it gets out, who will listen to their foolishness in the future?

What civil servants like to do the most is to stand on the moral high ground and condemn others, but standing on the moral high ground does not mean that they have to do it personally, and in fact their own moral level is not as high as where to go.

But now there is a ruthless person who personally implements according to their moral high ground, and even pulls them to implement it together. Now they have fully realized what it means to not do to others what you want to be done to others.