Rebirth of the best emperor

Chapter 240 Please kill yourself
Xin Zhao rushed to the palace in a hurry, and when he saw Li Lan, he demanded to see the emperor immediately.

Li Lan looked at Xin Zhao with a strange face, and said with a smile: "Master Zhao, although you are the minister of the Ministry of Rites and an important minister of the court, your majesty can't be seen whenever you want."

"Eunuch Li, can I come to see His Majesty if I have nothing to do?" Xin Zhao cupped his hands and said, "I really have something important to see Your Majesty, please help me to tell Your Majesty."

"I don't have that face, Your Majesty is resting now, you just wait." Li Lan left Zhao Xin and left directly.

After waiting for more than an hour, Li Lan came to take Zhao Xin to see Wang Mang. When Wang Mang saw Zhao Xin, he said, "Listen to Li Lan, you have been waiting for me for a long time, what's the matter, please tell me."

In fact, Wang Mang didn't rest at all, he just didn't want to see the ministers as soon as they came, so what's the emperor's airs, you go to the Yamen to do something, and you still have to queue up, and you have to let the officials find faults in the queue, I am the world Lord, how can we meet casually, besides, Wang Mang has already guessed what Zhao Xin came to report, trivial matters, just wait.

"Qizou Your Majesty, I have something to report to Your Majesty." Zhao Xin greeted Wang Mang, and then he couldn't wait to speak.

"Didn't you tell me?" Wang Mang glanced at Xin Zhao,

Zhao Xin quickly said: "This is your majesty, Zhang Jian and Zhang Shangshu asked someone to hand over a letter to my minister, asking me to help arrange a person to participate in the examination to be held in the palace soon, your majesty regards the court's selection of scholars as now The court's top priority, how could I have the guts to do such a thing, after much deliberation, I felt it was inappropriate, so I came here to report to His Majesty."

Xin Zhao really thought about it for a long time, and had a long time of ideological struggle in his mind, with his old leader Zhang Jian on one side and the unpredictable emperor on the other, but Xin Zhao was in a dilemma.

Until later, Xin Zhao suddenly remembered that not long after he went to see Wang Qinian, Li Lan ran to deliver the decree. He immediately realized that the emperor might have known about Zhang Jian’s letter to him, so he rushed straight to the palace without stopping, fearing that he would be late. It made the emperor unhappy.

After Wang Mang listened to Zhao Xin's report, he just said indifferently: "That's it?"

When Xin Zhao heard it, he was startled. The emperor didn't mean to be surprised at all. He knew this a long time ago. Thanks to him, he came in time. If he waited, he might be dismissed from office. The decree of exile.

After thinking carefully in his heart, Zhao Dao said: "Your Majesty, Zhang Shangshu rests at home according to His Majesty's will, and generally does not interfere with the affairs of the court. He can specifically ask people to directly find Weichen to arrange someone, which shows that the person who is arranged is very good. This is unusual, I asked someone to check it out, and found out that the person entrusted by Zhang Shangshu is very mysterious, and the file is completely forged, I immediately felt that the matter was of great importance, so I hurried to the palace."

Zhao Xin is worthy of being an old man in the officialdom, he has a lot of gossip, and he explained to Wang Mang in a few words that he didn't intend to delay the time to report to His Majesty, but spent time to investigate and understand the situation before coming to His Majesty, and secretly told Wang Mang He praised himself for his meticulous work, and finally pinned the blame on Zhang Jian's head, and truly achieved that the dead fellow Taoists will not die poor daoists.

Wang Mang glanced at Xin Zhao with a half-smile, he understood all the meanings of Xin Zhao, he didn't expect this guy to be so thoughtful, so he said with a smile: "Xin Zhao, I understand you, this matter I don't care about things, don't worry!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Xin Zhao secretly relieved himself, he now fully understood that it was not Li Lan's intention to wait outside for an hour, but the emperor's intention.

"Also, you did a good job in this matter." Wang Mang said again.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Zhao Xin thanked again quickly, and then said: "I don't know about this matter, what should I do?"

"What to do and how to do it." Wang Mang said: "Zhang Jian is your old leader after all. He turned down his face and asked you to do things. You still have to give him this face, but you can't give it as soon as he says it. What I mean you understood?"

Xin Zhao's face was confused at first, then stunned, and finally nodded like a chicken pecking at rice: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I understand."

"Just understand, let's go!" Wang Mang waved his hand and drove away directly.

When Xin Zhao left, Wang Mang sat on the chair and pondered for a while, then told Li Lan, "Go and call Zhang Jian to the palace, I have something to ask him."

Li Lan was startled, then left the palace to find Zhang Jian without saying anything.

Zhang Jian was surprised when he received the imperial decree, then quickly changed his clothes, and followed Li Lan into the palace.

As soon as he saw Wang Mang, Zhang Jian knelt down on the ground with a thud, and said loudly: "The guilty minister Zhang Jian kowtowed to His Majesty, long live long live Your Majesty!"

"Criminal?" Wang Mang looked at Zhang Jian playfully and said, "Why are you guilty?"

"The guilty minister asked someone to find Zhao Xin, the Minister of Rites with a handwritten letter, and asked Zhao Shangshu's assistant to arrange for a person to participate in the examination, which destroyed the court's selection ceremony and violated the laws of the Great Qin Dynasty. This is the crime of the minister!" Zhang Jian kowtowed. .

On the way here, Zhang Jian sorted out his recent behavior carefully, and found that he had not done anything other than offending the emperor in Shiziyuan at that time, and now the emperor is looking for him, it must not be about the crime of Shiziyuan Yes, besides, the matter of Shiziyuan is not even on the table.

After thinking about it, Zhang Jian felt that there was only one thing that the emperor would find him, and that was Li Wenjun's request to arrange for Chen Chusheng to take the examination.

It has to be said that Zhang Jian is indeed an old fox with extraordinary wisdom. It took only a moment for him to think of the ins and outs of the matter.

Wang Mang did not deny Zhang Jian's crime, but sighed: "Aiqing, you are a smart person!"

Smart people do stupid things!
Zhang Jian understood the meaning of Wang Mang's words, and immediately shed tears and said, "Your Majesty, the guilty minister is also helpless!"

As the official minister of the imperial court, the former emperor Tuogu minister, and today's master, Zhang Jian certainly knows what will happen if he offends the emperor, and he knows that from his standpoint, he should always be consistent with the emperor, whether in action or thinking. .

But Zhang Jian is also helpless!

He is the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, the official of the imperial court, and No.1 below the emperor. Countless court ministers regard him as the leader and the spokesperson of the interests of the officials. In certain matters, he must be consistent with the officials and speak for them. , But in this way, if you are not careful, you will definitely offend the emperor. After all, the interests of the officials and noble families and the interests of the emperor are bound to be inconsistent at some point.

But can this be his fault?
Zhang Jian also understood that he knew these helplessness, and so did the emperor, so after the Shiziyuan incident, the emperor just let him go home to take care of himself, and didn't say anything else, not even dismissing him from the position of Minister of the Ministry of Officials.

But this time, it was indeed a taboo!
The Great Qin established the country with scholars, and the examination of scholars is the foundation of the Great Qin. Not everyone can do anything wrong in it. Wu Yong did it, so Wu Yong's father and son committed suicide, and his family was exiled. Minister, only the Son of Heaven has the power to appoint and dismiss, not some officials can grant and accept privately, this is the second crime.

Thinking of this, Zhang Jian let out a long sigh, kowtowed and said: "Your Majesty, the guilty minister knows his death penalty, but can you ask your majesty to let the guilty minister go home and end it on his own for the sake of the fact that I have taught him how to write for a few days!"

(End of this chapter)