Prime Minister

Chapter 477
Seventeen Niang couldn't help asking Zhang Yue carefully what happened in the palace today?
Zhang Yue then told the lady exactly.

Halfway through hearing that, Seventeen Niang immediately changed her countenance and said angrily, "What a fool, the officials scolded me well, so I would have scolded me too."

As soon as Zhang Yue heard the word Hunjun, he quickly went up to cover his mouth and said, "Miss, don't talk nonsense, we can say this too."

Well!
Seventeen Niang was just angry, and seeing that Zhang Yue covered his mouth to prevent her from speaking, she couldn't help being furious, she broke free from Zhang Yue and said: "He is obviously a foolish king, so we can't say it in our own family."

Seeing Shi Qiniang like this, Zhang Yue felt a little guilty towards Shi Qi Niang and felt that he had failed her expectations, but now he couldn't help saying: "My lady, don't blame me."

Seventeen Niang said: "There is nothing wrong with the officials working so hard for the court. Fortunately, I was not in the hall today, otherwise I would have scolded them too. If the angry official doesn't do it, he won't do it."

Zhang Yue sighed: "My lady, you don't need to use these words to comfort me. I also know that today I was impulsive, so I contradicted the official. But at the time, I was really angry."

Seventeen Niang smiled and said: "What kind of person is the official, do you want me, a woman, to comfort me, but I said that the official scolded well, not without reason."

"Oh? Please ask the lady to come."

Seventeen Niangs said: "When I went home to visit my sister-in-law a few days ago, I heard from my mother that the officials had postponed the appointment of King Pu as the emperor's uncle. Now many courtiers are worried that the reason for the official resignation is to After the position of power is stabilized, the name of King Pu will be changed to Huang Kao."

"Once it's the emperor's exam, I'm afraid there will be a big chaos in the court."

Zhang Yue suddenly realized, isn't this Pu Yi?

That's right, I was worrying about how not to get involved in this matter, but now I don't have to think about it.

Zhang Yue said: "This matter may not be what the lady thinks?"

The lady smiled slightly and said, "Why don't the officials believe my vision? Have you forgotten your colleague Lu Jinshu in the Courtyard?"

Lu Xiaqing?
Zhang Yue remembered that Lu Xiaqing's life was really difficult recently.

It turned out that on the day of Emperor Renzong's burial, the emperor did not shed a single tear, so Lu Xiaqing creatively invented a word of crying, which was covered up by the officials.

Lu Xiaqing knew Taichang Ritual Academy, and as a ceremonial official, he had the right to interpret the etiquette law.

This matter was ignored at first, but later when Fu Bi found out after returning to the court, Mr. Fu, who was always good-tempered, also cursed people, and it was Lu Xiaqing who scolded.

The general idea is that it is understandable that the officials did not cry bitterly during the funeral. After all, they may have cried before or after.But it is disgusting for the officials to make excuses for the emperor so forcefully.

Then once Lu Xiaqing met Feng Jing, Fu Bi's good son-in-law.Feng Jing didn't give Lu Xiaqing any face at all, and ruthlessly squeezed him out in the public.

Lu Xiaqing became ill with anger, and went back to bed for several months.

Zhang Yue can roughly understand Fu Bi's meaning. Whether the emperor cries or not is the emperor's meaning, but the behavior of officials to rationalize the emperor's behavior is too disgusting.

To use an analogy, it is as if the officials shot a few arrows at random on the wooden board, and then a group of officials came up to draw targets with the arrows of the officials, and then the arrows all hit the hearts of hearts.

Lu Xiaqing's job is to draw an archery target.

The so-called "sage" is like this. With such an official, who is afraid that any official will miss the target?
But in the eyes of Fu Bi and other mainstream officials, this move is wrong. Our scholar-bureaucrats in the Song Dynasty have not yet reached the point where they kneel and lick the emperor without a bottom line. Your operation, Lu Xiaqing, lowers everyone's bottom line.In other words, the imperial power is not yet strong enough to make officials speak against their conscience.

If there are officials who speak out of conscience, then everyone can attack them.

So on the question of whether King Pu is the emperor and the emperor's examination, the officials are now looking for officials who can draw an arrow target for him.

However, Fu Bi's meaning is obvious, which official dares to be as shameless as Lu Xiaqing, then all of us officials will attack him together.

Hearing this, Zhang Yue couldn't help but said to his wife: "You think the officials won't find me, right?"

Seventeen Niang said with a smile: "Not necessarily, but we have to guard against it. Since the current officials ascended the throne, they have acted quite absurdly. The officials should have known about it a long time ago, otherwise they would not have resigned as Jingyan officials early."

Zhang Yue smiled. With such a smart wife, he was under a lot of pressure.

Zhang Yue sighed and said: "My lady is right. I have only been an official for a few years, and my qualifications are still inexperienced. As the saying goes, a small boat can easily turn around. It’s Uncle Ouyang and the others. It’s hard to advance or retreat in their positions.”

Shi Qiniang pursed her lips and said with a smile: "I think Uncle Ouyang is more open-minded than you. Before, he often said that my brother-in-law is not good at progress and does not live up to expectations. He even failed to pass the Jinshi examination, which made his generation of Wenzong lose face. But now Uncle Ouyang is a I never scolded my brother-in-law, and often said to my sister that safety is a blessing, and now that he can retire smoothly, it is a blessing not to bear the curse in the future."

Zhang Yue said: "It's extremely cold at the heights. Uncle Ouyang's position, I'm afraid he's looking for a decent home now."

After Zhang Yue and Shi Qi Niang finished speaking, the husband and wife rested immediately.

Looking at the peaceful face of the sleeping lady in his arms, Zhang Yue couldn't help but feel ups and downs.

The politics of the Song Dynasty were between the republic of scholar-officials and the dictatorship of the imperial power. The two did not say which one was stronger and who was weaker. Generally, when the emperor first came to the throne, it was a republic of scholar-bureaucrats, but over time the imperial power must be on top of it.

But the most important thing is to see if the emperor can live so long.

Jiajing has been in power for more than forty years, so after the great etiquette is done, he has won.

Zhang Yue couldn't help having trouble sleeping that night, and Shi Qi Niang, who was sleeping with her, also woke up.She looked at her husband's furrowed brows and knew what he was thinking, so she didn't speak, but reached out her hand and held Zhang Yue's.

Seeing that he had woken Shiqi Niang up, Zhang Yue couldn't help apologizing slightly, then took Shi Qi Niang's hand and placed it on his chest, and the husband and wife spent the night in silence.

A few days later, after Zhang Yue thought about it, he decided to write the Ci Shu and was ready to go through the process.

Anyway, the transfer to the prison is now on the right track, so it doesn't matter if I withdraw now.

But when it came to the court meeting, I saw all the court officials were full of enthusiasm when they saw me, not only took the initiative to say hello, but also went up to chat with each other.

Zhang Yue couldn't help being baffled, what happened?
This is completely different from the attitude of the court officials towards themselves before.

Zhang Yue was flattered by the sudden enthusiasm, but in the distance, he saw Lu Hui nodding to himself with an ambiguous smile, and then chatting with his colleagues.

Zhang Yue said in his heart, it's not something glorious to hate the emperor, why are the officials so enthusiastic about him?
There must be something famous in it.

Zhang Yue's diction has already been written, so he suddenly came up with this set for himself.

There must be something strange about why everyone's attitude towards him is so good all of a sudden.

Zhang Yue asked several familiar officials, but they all kept their faces secretive and refused to speak out.

Zhang Yue finally found Lu Hui, and the other party said haha, "Duzhi, thank you queen, this time you are a blessing in disguise!"

(End of this chapter)