Prime Minister

Chapter 474 The Emperor

After Zhang Yue's words, the atmosphere in the hall suddenly froze.

The apse of Chongzheng Hall is a very spacious place, and two little Huangmenben add incense to the censer on the side of the hall.

Suddenly feeling that the tone of the hall was stagnant, he raised his head slightly, only to see the old eunuch at the side of the hall gave the two of them a stern look.

Xiao Huangmen, who was able to enter the Chongzheng Palace to work, knew how to read words and expressions best. The two of them immediately stopped what they were doing, kowtowed to the official after the case, stepped back and left the hall.

The old eunuch looked solemn, raised the whisk in his hand, and then said in a high-pitched voice: "Minister, leave!"

The official's face was a little pale, as if he didn't react for a while.

He couldn't believe it at the moment, although the servant at the side reminded the two officials that they could step down, but the official waved his hand and asked Zhang Yue: "What did you say?"

Lu Hui coughed lightly, and winked at Zhang Yue, signaling him to apologize immediately.

Zhang Yue's speech was stagnant.

Seeing that Zhang Yue hesitated to answer, the official stared at Zhang Yue, raised his voice slightly, and asked condescendingly: "Zhang Qing, can you tell me what you said just now?"

The eunuch at the side sighed softly, and took three steps back to look at the situation in the hall.

After Zhang Yue spoke just now, there was indeed a wave of fear, and even his body trembled slightly, and his heart beat fast.

"Why don't you dare?" The official laughed lightly.

When I dare not?

Zhang Yue's blood was surging at this moment, and he couldn't help but blurt out: "What I said just now, Your Majesty thinks that I am not qualified for the position of the third division. If so, I can report to the king in detail."

Lu He shook his head, how dare a Taichang Cheng choke the emperor?
That's right, Taiwan admonishers often did this during the Renzong Dynasty.

During Renzong's time, the status of Taijian was not high, but in the Renzong Dynasty, Taijian was infinitely elevated.However, Renzong's original intention was to use Taiwan's advice to restrict the prime minister, but Nazhi shot himself in the foot.

The real core of Taiwan's remonstrance today is Sima Guang.

Because Sima Guang represented the public opinion of the world, what the emperor feared was the public opinion, not Sima Guang himself.

What does that Zhangyue represent?
Is he an admonisher?Dare to choke on the emperor like this?
The face of the official was downcast, if Caizhang had been more willing to give in just now, there was still room for redemption, but now that he has spoken the truth, there is no room for the two of them to maneuver.

Just now, when Cai Guanjia talked with Zhang Yue and Lu Hui, there was still a smile on his face, but now his face has sunk, and a wave of anger is brewing in his heart.

The official took a letter from the case, put it down again, and said in a cold voice: "I heard that Zhang Qing is recruiting a lot of people in prison... At best, it's about recruiting talents and not avoiding relatives, at worst, it's about... Let others be your relatives."

"Selecting and employing people is the official tool of the court, and the prison is the court's yamen, not Zhang Qing's Jiedu envoy!"

In the Song Dynasty, all handsome officials, supervisors, and county guards could choose officials on their own and ask the imperial court to appoint them. This is called evasion.But Zhang Yue is not in this list.

Although the officials were furious in their hearts at the moment, they still maintained restraint on the surface.

Zhang Yuedao: "Reporting to Your Majesty, the appointments of ministers and supervisors all go through Liu Neiquan and take orders from the imperial court. I don't know where the words of making people relatives come from?"

The official said: "Really? Why did Zhang Qing only use Tai students? Fill the important positions with former classmates?"

Zhang Yuedao: "Reporting to Your Majesty, the students of the imperial court are virtuous and handsome from all directions. They were recommended by the prefectures and counties and sent to the Guozijian. They are all well-read poems and books, and they are all talented. I recruit talents for the court, so I don't hesitate to use the old friendship of my classmates. They have the audacity to ask three times and five times, so they don't think the officials are inferior, and they are willing to bow down to work in the prison. I don't know why this is wrong?"

The official said: "This... the Tai student is Han Jun, he is indeed a talent. You can save the recruiting of the Tai student. So except for the Tai student? I heard that you have been entrusted by many ministers to place their nephews in Jiaoyin Prison, arrange dispatch. What are those people capable of?"

Zhang Yue said: "Since your majesty talks about talent, how dare you ask your majesty what a talent is?"

"From my point of view, those imperial students who come from humble backgrounds but have outstanding talents, and each of them can take care of themselves are indeed talents. But there is another class. They come from officials and eunuchs. They have been in the officialdom for a long time, and they are familiar with people. They have What I call resources, this is also a first-class talent."

The officials were surprised when they heard the words, Zhang Yue clearly used the errands of the prison to exchange the so-called resources of the ministers, such an act of selling officials and nobles can be said to be so fresh and refined.

"Acquaintance with people is also a talent?" the official asked.

Zhang Yue said: "That's exactly the case. The Jiaoyin Prison is also a yamen, and it is located in Luoyang, Shaanxi, and Bianjing. Therefore, it is necessary to communicate with officials and deal with various yamen in Beijing."

"If you use officials who are able to do things but don't know them well, no matter how capable they are, they won't even be able to enter the door of the yamen, let alone deal with the yamen."

"and also……"

Lu He was dumbfounded watching.

But when Zhang saw the more righteous and stern words he spoke, the officials were rendered speechless after a long meal.And this long speech has no intention of stopping, but seeing Zhang talking more and more excited, white saliva spewed out of his mouth accidentally, and it splashed on the desk in front of the official.

Listening to Zhang Yue's words, Lu He became more and more confident, and unexpectedly forgot to remind him for a while. He was surprised before, but now he finds it funny.

Is there any courtier who robs the daylight like this?
Is this still the end?The saliva from this mouth was flying around, and it was about to spray on the official's face.

Lu He coughed heavily at the side, and Zhang Yue calmed down after hearing Lu He's reminder: "The rest of the ministers will talk about it later..."

It's not finished yet?Could it be that you can't talk about it?

Lu Hui thought to himself that he had really underestimated Zhang Yue. He usually looked so humble and polite, but he was so serious that he didn't even leave any room for the officials.

The officials couldn't help being angry, even though what Zhang Yue said was reasonable, but he is a courtier after all, so there is no such reason.

Do you, Zhang Yue, look down on me as an official from the bottom of your heart?

After all, the official had just become the emperor, and he didn't know what to do before the authority was established. At this moment, he became angry and said: "If you don't talk about the employment, it must be true that the account is not clear!"

None of the accounts of the Yamen in the world are clear.

The official gave a sigh of relief, feeling that he had finally made a comeback. Just as he was about to reprimand Zhang Yue for his responsibility for the hidden reporting of the supervisory accounts, he saw Zhang Yue clamping Bai Jian under his armpit, squatting down from the boot page He took a thin book-like thing from his pocket and presented it: "Your Majesty, I have always carried this account book with you, and please check the account with Your Majesty. If there is anything unclear, I will let you know ...and crashed his head against the golden palace!"

Zhang Yue pointed at the thick column in the corner of the hall, and then resolutely handed over the account book to the king.

The official was also stunned, he didn't expect that Zhang Yue would carry the account book with him, and he couldn't do anything with Zhang Yue at this moment, so in order to save his face, he couldn't help beating Zhang Yue heavily: "Arrogance!"

After speaking, the official was about to leave the hall in shock and anger, but he waved his sleeves and found that he was motionless. He turned his head and saw that it was Zhang Yue who grabbed his dragon sleeves.

Zhang Yue presented the account book and said like a stubborn bull, "Please take a look at it, Your Majesty!"

Seeing this scene, Lu Huo and the old officials exclaimed in unison.

"Bold!"

"presumptuous!"

(End of this chapter)