Prime Minister

Chapter 464

Just a few days before Zhang Yue impeached Ren Shouzhong, a major incident happened in the court.

That is, the queen mother returned power to the officials.

At that time, Han Qi wanted the Empress Dowager Cao to return to the government. After playing the matter one day, he told Zeng Gongliang, Ouyang Xiu and other officials: "Now that the tomb of the late emperor has been repaired, Han should have stepped down from the mission of the mountain mausoleum and begged to retire. The emperor's health has not recovered, so it has been postponed to this day. I will go to the front of the curtain to report to the Queen Mother to ask the Duke of a county, and I hope you will agree."

Everyone is against it.

After that, Han Qi played with the Queen Mother and told the Queen Mother that he was going to resign and go back to seclusion. Then the Queen Mother said, how can the husband-in-law retire, if he wants to retire, he must retire first.

After hearing this, Han Qi immediately said, Empress Dowager Shengming, and after saying a lot of compliments, ordered people to withdraw the curtain. Empress Dowager Cao didn't expect Han Qi to be serious, and left behind the curtain in a hurry.

After the Son of Heaven came to power, he had a series of promotions and rewards. Han Qi and others were promoted to nobility.

After Ren Shouzhong became an official, his cronies who had followed him for many years all went to his mansion in the capital to congratulate him.

Ren Shouzhong's mansion is located in the inner city, only a few steps away from the root of the imperial city. This is the most expensive place in the capital.But Ren Shouzhong has a five-entry mansion here, which is even inferior to Han Qi and other prime ministers.

And like this Jiadi, Ren Shouzhong still has more than a dozen seats in the capital.

Now that Ren Shouzhong is sitting high, his entourage and officials all come to congratulate him, and there are hundreds of people coming outside the door.

Ren Shouzhong told his godson: "Stop everyone, I don't have time to talk to these people one by one."

His godsons all laughed, Ren Shouzhong said: "What are you laughing at, our family is not free even in the middle of the night in order to work for the government?"

At this time, an official from the supervisory department stepped forward to kowtow to Ren Shouzhong and said, "Congratulations to Godfather for his promotion!"

Ren Shouzhong smiled hypocritically, but when he was about to speak, he saw that the other party had lost his beard and asked, "Where's your beard?"

The official of the supervision department laughed and said, "How dare a child have what daddy doesn't have."

Ren Shouzhong laughed out loud when he heard the words, and the others also laughed, and one of them laughed and said, "Just for your words, the officials that godfather will reward you in the future will definitely not be small."

Ren Shouzhong smiled and said: "That's right, what you said is to my liking, so do your job well, you should choose someone now, and I will change your position next year."

The official was overjoyed and kowtowed again and again: "Then thank you daddy for your support, my son kowtows to you."

The official gave a generous gift and stepped back. Ren Shouzhong was very satisfied with the generous gift, and said to his relatives: "There are cold officials in the officialdom, and there are hot officials. If you don't give gifts, you don't flatter. Giving gifts and flattering, a cold official becomes a hot official.”

Everyone said: "Godfather's words are really incisive. Isn't this the case in the officialdom throughout the ages?"

Ren Shouzhong nodded and said: "Hey, this is only what I said today. Thinking about the past few days, there were not many people here, but now there are so many people here. How our family can change from a cold official to a hot official is not for the officials to use." Are you at our house?"

"When the first emperor was in power, I had been like this for a long time. The officials called me arrogant. Although the first emperor was tolerant of those around him, he told me to restrain himself once. How do you think I answered?"

Everyone shook their heads.

Ren Shouzhong said: "At that time, our family said to the first emperor, the official family, the old minister has no heirs, and after this body is buried in the earth, won't all the money accumulated in the first class over the years go into the internal treasury?"

"That's why the first emperor told me that he would never care about it again after this time. Even when several clans passed away, the first emperor asked me to attend the funeral, and others scolded me for embezzling money wantonly during the funeral. Why do you think the first emperor didn't punish him?"

"Because after the death of our ministers, everything belongs to the royal family. Therefore, the royal family wants us to be this infamy!"

"You said why I'm gaining power again now, it's not because I can make money for the official queen."

"Okay, now that the Empress Dowager has abdicated and the government is now in charge, our family will be reused accordingly. You must remember one sentence, as eunuchs, we must be loyal and capable of doing things."

All the relatives said: "Be taught, be taught!"

Ren Shouzhong smiled with satisfaction, he thought that even Zhang Yue, who had always been dissatisfied with him, had entrusted Wang Gui to make peace.When I see Zhang Yue at that time, I have to beat him hard. I really treat the money handed over to the prison as public property.

After beating Zhang Yue, Cai Xiang was the next one to tidy up.

Just as Ren Shouzhong was thinking, someone suddenly said: "Godfather, it's not good..."

"What's the matter? In a panic," Ren Shouzhong asked.

"This..." The other party held a piece of paper and handed it to Ren Shouzhong, "This is copied from His Majesty's case today by Chen Qu, the attendant, and it's about you, Dad."

Ren Shouzhong's expression changed when he heard the words, and he immediately took out the paper to read.

Ren Shouzhong's expression couldn't help changing as he watched, and finally he couldn't help but fell on the chair, and all his followers hurried forward to support him.

"Godfather!"

"Godfather!"

"Quickly pinch someone!"

Ren Shouzhong opened the opponent's hand and said, "I'm not dead yet!"

Ren Shouzhong held up the paper and read it again, cursing: "What a Lu Hui, I have no grievances or enmities with you, and you actually want to harm me like this, who ordered it?"

Everyone said: "That's right, who is so brave, Daddy, we will settle this account together with him in the future."

Ren Shouzhong nodded, but looked at the letter again and thought, I'm afraid I won't have a future.

Ren Shouzhong said: "What's the matter with Zhongshu?"

"After leaving, Mr. Han went to the palace."

Ren Shouzhong said sincerely, okay, Han Qi is going to put me to death.

Knowing that Han Qi was at odds with him, Ren Shouzhong tried every means to deal with him. Now that Lu Heo was on the memorial, how could he let this opportunity pass.

Ren Shouzhong settled down and said: "You go to Lu Huana to kowtow and give gifts. As long as he is willing to stop impeaching me, then I will give him gold and silver."

"I will enter the palace to meet the officials!"

After finishing speaking, Ren Shouzhong had already entered the palace, and as soon as he saw the official family, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed, crying so much.

The official looked at Ren Shouzhong like this, and said with joy and pity in his heart: "Why are you so careless in doing things? I have seen these twelve crimes. Any one of them can kill you, even if there are some things that I know are not That's the case, but there are so many people talking, who can stop it!"

Ren Shouzhong said: "The officials are merciful, merciful!"

The official continued: "Those who are good at admonishing and accepting words are the family law of this dynasty! I have just been in power, and the meaning of the following admonishing officials has to be respected."

"Moreover, Han Xianggong came to see me in the palace just now, and said that after Lu Hui was neglected, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty gathered outside the palace gate, saying that the world has been suffering from loyalty for a long time."

"I told him that when I first ascended the throne, Ren Shouzhong also had meritorious service, and I would like to be less lenient. But Han Xiang is fair, the late emperor personally gave me a great weapon, and the empress dowager praised him for meritorious service. Your majesty, in pursuit of the late emperor Gu Fu's kindness, To repay the power of supporting the Empress Dowager, if this generation also said that they have made great contributions, I wonder where the late emperor and the Empress Dowager are?"

Ren Shouzhong cursed from the bottom of his heart when he heard the words, Han Qi really wants him to die!

Seeing the helpless look of the officials, Ren Shouzhong felt that he had seen through the emperor, the most indifferent and ruthless emperor in the world, the time when he used you before, compared with the time when you are abandoned like a shoe, it is completely different two people.

(End of this chapter)