travel through the past to be emperor

Chapter 140 The Ignorant
Hearing Zhao Fei ask this question, Wang Qinian froze and smiled wryly.

"what happened?"

For Wang Qinian's attitude, Zhao Fei was very strange. According to his thinking, Wang Qinian should like Zhao Xiaobai very much. After all, a special talent like Zhao Xiaobai is not just pulled back from the street.

"Your Majesty, you are a nice person, but you are more active." Wang Qinian said slowly, this is already the best wording he can organize in his mind.

In fact, according to Wang Qinian's original intention, he just wanted to say that this is not active, he is clearly a ruffian.

But the person was recommended by Zhao Fei, and Zhao Fei was the emperor, so he had to give the emperor face when he did things, so Wang Qinian had to express his dissatisfaction tactfully.

Zhao Fei heard that Wang Qinian didn't seem to like Zhao Xiaobai very much, and wondered what wicked thing this kid did to anger the old man.

In Zhao Fei's view, among the entire court, if it is said that moral cultivation is the best, Wang Qinian takes the second place, and no one dares to take the first place.

Being able to piss off such a good old man shows that Zhao Xiaobai is indeed a talent.

For talents, Zhao Fei has always promoted and protected them vigorously. Dang even persuaded him: "Young people, it's normal to be more active."

"That's right." Zhao Zilong, who hadn't spoken much, said, "Lord Wang, earlier, I was very envious when I heard that His Majesty recommended someone to you."

"Yes." Lin Wanrong also echoed: "I heard that this person not only composes poems and songs, but is also good at singing, dancing, and eloquence. There are not many young people like this in the imperial court."

The crowd praised him for a while, and Wang Qinian felt furious. He glared at the crowd fiercely, and said, "If you really like it, why don't I let this man to you, how about it?"

Hearing what the old man said, everyone smiled and waved their hands and said, "My lord, this is someone His Majesty recommended to you, but you can't give it to us."

Fuck, you want to throw that clown on the bow of our house, you old man, aren't you dreaming!

The ministers shouted in their hearts, and then complimented Wang Qinian again. In short, these are all the preferential treatment that His Majesty gave to you. You have a noble character and are loyal to the country. Only you can educate such talents.

After all, it's just a few words: You've already recognized this matter!
Zhao Fei watched the group of ministers complimenting each other for a while, and felt a little funny, but he also understood that Zhao Xiaobai not only left a bad impression on Wang Qinian, but also other ministers in a short period of time. Respect him.

After coughing twice, the officials immediately fell silent.

Looking around at the crowd, Zhao Fei set his sights on Sha Huwei, and said, "Sha Aiqing, you must have been exhausted after rushing all the way back to Chang'an, so why don't you go back and rest first, after you take a bath and change your clothes to rest?" , let’s pick another time to talk about Hebei Road in detail.”

Hearing what Zhao Fei said, everyone understood that Zhao Fei was serving tea to the guests at this time.

Naturally, no one would stay and say that they wanted Zhao Fei to stay for dinner, and they all said that they would wait to send His Majesty respectfully. When Zhao Fei went out, he gave Liu Yong a wink.

Officials all know how to read words and expressions, Liu Yong knew that Zhao Fei wanted to see you with just one look.

How else can you say that monkeys are smart, and they are born to be Ganbi Mawen? Otherwise, you can knock him on the head three times with someone else to see if he knows he will see you in the middle of the night.

Others also saw the look in Zhao Fei's eyes. Although they knew that Liu Yong would go to see Zhao Fei, they didn't show any envy in their eyes, but they responded with a look of kindness.

Liu Yong smiled wryly, not daring to delay, ran outside to ask Anping, then followed Zhao Fei's footsteps.

I met Liu Yongshi in the study, but the atmosphere of the meeting was far from harmonious.

Liu Yong knelt straight in front of Zhao Fei, and kept saying apology.

To say that Liu Yong's crime is the previous donation.

Zhao Fei made an opening at the time, and handed over the review right to Liu Yong. As a result, this guy was lucky, and he found thousands of donors for himself without saying a word, including hundreds of uncles. similar characters.

Of course, there is no need to talk about the character of donating officials. Those are the people who must be greedy when they are officials. Now Zhao Fei has no choice but to send such a group of people to become officials in the local area. .

"What's the use of pleading guilty now?" Zhao Fei snorted coldly: "I have caused so much trouble for me, and I didn't know about it until now. Tell me, I trust you so much, and you are doing things for me like this of?"

"Your Majesty, the subject is guilty." Liu Yong smiled wryly.

"Convicted?" Zhao Fei sneered and said, "Since you said you were guilty, then tell me why you are guilty?"

"Chen..." Liu Yong was at a loss for words for a while, thinking to himself why the emperor didn't play cards according to the rules?
According to common sense, as a courtier, you only need to say that the courtier is guilty. As for what the crime is, it is not up to your emperor to decide.

Now your emperor doesn't say anything about my crimes, let me say it myself, I'm stupid!
If I said lightly, you would be unhappy, and I would have to be criticized again. If I said harshly, and accidentally crossed your bottom line, you really punished me, and I will die.

So Liu Yong was dumbfounded immediately.

The current situation is that the emperor asks you to confess your sins by yourself, to be lenient when you confess, and to be strict when you resist.

But the problem is that if you really talk about my crimes, there are still quite a few, but I don't believe that your leader grasps every one of my crimes.

There is only a reason for this crime that the less the better, there is no reason that the more the better.

So Liu Yong was speechless. It's not that he can't speak anymore, but he doesn't know what to say?

In the matter of accepting donations, there is too much room for maneuvering. Liu Yong himself does not believe that he will not stretch out his hand in it, but how long this hand stretches is a matter worth considering.

Seeing that Liu Yong didn't speak for a long time, Zhao Fei didn't understand that this guy was probably thinking about his bottom line in his heart.

With a sneer, Zhao Fei said: "You don't need to guess, let me put it this way, in my heart, greed is greed, and stretching out your hand is stretching out your hand. There is nothing in my heart for you to take one tael of silver, 1 taels, or 10 taels of silver." different."

"Ah!" Liu Yong looked at Zhao Fei in surprise.

"I came to you today and reprimanded you, not because you stretched out your hand on this matter." Zhao Fei said: "What makes me angry is that when you stretched out your hand, you didn't smooth out my troubles. What's going on with this uncle who Qin Hui can't afford to offend?"

"Your Majesty, this..." Liu Yong sighed, "These hundreds of people really don't blame me!"

"Who do you blame?" Zhao Fei asked back.

"They are all the princes and princesses of various prefectures, and high officials of the court. I really dare not refuse the notes written by them!" Liu Yong explained.

Zhao Fei just sneered at this, and said: "You can't refuse, I can refuse, since something like this happened, why don't you tell me about it."

Although Zhao Fei spoke righteously here, but if it weren't for today, to be honest, Zhao Fei would have forgotten about the donation, so why would he ask Liu Yong how the donation is going.

But Liu Yong didn't know this, so he kowtowed on the ground and apologized with a wry smile.

"Forget it, you get up first."

After thinking about it for a while, Zhao Fei felt that it was meaningless to continue asking questions like this. It was like two people singing a double reed here, so he ordered Liu Yong to get up.

After thanking Liu Yong, he stood up and said, "Your Majesty, regarding the matter of accepting donations, I have indeed done something wrong in many places..."

"You did something wrong, I know, all the ministers in the court know." Zhao Fei sneered, "You don't need to explain, because explaining is useless."

"Yes." Liu Yong nodded quickly.

"So let's put this matter aside for the time being, but there is one thing that needs to be dealt with urgently." Zhao Fei said.

"What's the matter?" Liu Yong asked.

"This matter of donating must be stopped as soon as possible, and no more new people can be recruited." Zhao Fei sighed and said, "Donation was just a means for the court to make money at that time, and now the court is still in a financial surplus, and I have In other ways, there is no need to deal with the matter of donations.”

"Yes." Liu Yong said: "I will post an announcement today to stop this matter."

"You give me a list of the people who received the donation this time and handed it to me." Zhao Fei said, "Also, I'm writing a summary report on this donation. I want to see it."

"Yes." Liu Yong nodded.

"One more thing, how much money did you get for the court this time?" Zhao Fei asked.

"According to my rough statistics, there are about 180 million taels." Liu Yong said.

"How much?" Zhao Fei was stunned. He only knew that the imperial court had made a lot of money through the donation this time, but he really didn't expect to get so much money.

180 million taels, for the current imperial court, this is a huge sum of money.

Originally, Zhao Fei wondered why there were so many obvious irregularities in Liu Yong's collection of donations, but the court ministers seemed to have not noticed it.

Now when Liu Yong said the amount of donation, Zhao Fei immediately understood.

Although everyone wanted to get Liu Yong down, but faced with such a large amount of money, no one would think it would be difficult for him.

Knowing this, Zhao Fei suddenly thought of another matter, and the corners of his mouth could not help but curl up slightly.

"Your Majesty, what's the matter with you?" Liu Yong asked carefully.

"I think of something." Zhao Fei said, with some joy on his face.

"Ah?" Liu Yong blinked, wondering why Zhao Fei was so happy.

"Liu Yong, Liu Yong, you made a lot of money in this donation, right?" Zhao Fei asked maliciously.

"What?" Liu Yong looked around and said, "Didn't Your Majesty stop asking about this matter?"

"Now I want to ask, can't I?" Zhao Fei smiled.

You are the emperor, if you say yes, can I still say no?

Liu Yong thought in his heart, and then whispered: "It is true that I made some money."

Here, Liu Yong also knows that it is useless to deny it. If he wants to say that he didn't take a dime, who will believe it?

Since you can't deny it, why don't you just admit it.

"Well," Zhao Fei nodded, and then said solemnly: "The queen wants to build a golden Buddha recently, but you also know that I have always been diligent and thrifty, so you understand."

"Wei Chen understands." Liu Yong nodded and smiled wryly in his heart.

(End of this chapter)