Prime Minister

Chapter 516
Hearing that an imperial edict was going to be announced, the magistrate Lan hurried forward to take off Zhang Yue's iron chain.

"Zhang Taichang, I hope your lord will not remember the villain's mistakes."

Zhang Yue glanced at the other party, and finally asked Lan County Magistrate to untie the chain.

County magistrate Lan couldn't help but be overjoyed, thinking that Zhang Yue is really generous.

Everyone bowed down on the spot, including the refugees.

Li Xian read out the imperial decree.

The imperial decree is very simple, ordering Taichang Cheng Zhangyue to go to Beijing to face the saint immediately.

He didn't say that the official was reinstated, because Zhang Yue was never dismissed from his official position, but Li Xian presented Zhang Yue with the scarlet robe and whitebait bag: "It was too often left in front of the palace gate, but now it is returned to Zhao with complete jade. Now, please ask Zhang Taichang to wear this suit to meet the officials!"

Looking at the scarlet robe and silver fish bag, Zhang Yue recalled the beating of Han Zhi back then, but now the past is over.

Zhang Yue took the robe bag and said: "I obey the imperial edict."

Li Xiandao: "Zhang Taichang, please come with our family to the palace to face the saint!"

Zhang Yue said: "Please wait a moment, father-in-law."

After speaking, Zhang Yue stood up, and then said to Lan County Magistrate, "Lan County Magistrate..."

"My subordinate is here..." Lan County Magistrate trembled all over.

Zhang Yue said: "This chain is easy to untie, but the rest of the matter is difficult. You follow me into the palace and report the desolation of this place to His Majesty!"

Lan county magistrate was sweating coldly.

Li Xian said with a straight face: "Hurry up and take it down immediately!"

Lan county magistrate knelt down and said, "Zhang Taichang is the only one who doesn't see Mount Tai when he goes to the government. Please tell me how to rectify this porridge shop."

Zhang Yue thought for a while before walking between the two porridge pots and said: "The official proposed a method, put rice in the two pots together, and the porridge should be thick."

"What's the thick method?" asked the official who was in charge of the porridge.

"You can't float the chopsticks. In other words, the chopsticks float and the head falls to the ground!"

After Zhang Yue finished speaking, he grabbed a handful of chopsticks and threw them into the porridge, but the chopsticks immediately floated up.

All the officials shouted, "Let the rice go! Let the rice go!"

Lu Tixing also stepped forward and said to Lan County Magistrate: "Lan County Magistrate, have you listened to Zhang Taichang's orders? If you let me hear that a commoner starved to death in the porridge field again, you will be exiled to Lingnan!"

"Yes! I will do it right away," the county magistrate Lan yelled to the surroundings, "Put the pot to cook porridge and put rice in it!"

The refugees at the side all kowtowed to Zhang Yue and said, "Thank Zhang Taichang for his life!"

Seeing a very old man and his family kowtow to him, Zhang Yue helped him up and said in a dialect: "Old man, there are very few things I can do."

"Besides, the porridge relief is the official's kindness. If you want to thank, thank the official."

Zhang Yue felt deeply in his heart, the history books are endless about how many people died of starvation, but the young and old of this family let Zhang Yue see that people died not only in numbers.

The old man wept and said: "Yes, yes, I thanked the officials and also Zhang Taichang."

Zhang Yue turned his head to look at the hungry family beside the old man, including a two or three-year-old child who was also skinny and skinny.

Zhang Yue stroked the child's head distressedly. At this moment, he understood what is old and old and old, young and young and young.

"The people are suffering so much, I can't bear it, if there is such a day, I will let the people in the world have enough to eat, and they will never suffer from hunger and cold again!"

Thinking of this, Zhang Yue cheered up and said to Li Xian, "Let's go!"

Li Xian said yes.

After the two mounted their horses and went to Beijing, Li Xian couldn't help asking Zhang Yue: "Why didn't Zhang Taichang escort this treacherous official to Beijing? Your Majesty, please let me know."

Zhang Yue said: "Many officials in the world are like this. It won't help to deal with one. Besides, the disease of the world is not here, but in the temple."

Li Xiandao: "The government attaches so much importance to Zhang Taichang, so please ask Zhang Taichang to speak up and do his part for the common people in the world."

Zhang Yue glanced at Li Xian and thought that the other party was interesting.

"Of course." Zhang Yue nodded, and immediately whipped his horse.

At this moment, the official family was pacing in the Zizheng Palace, and sent several eunuchs to visit. When they learned that Zhang Yue had finally arrived at the palace, they expressed their joy and said to Han Wei who was beside him: "I knew Zhang Qing would not shirk."

After the Son of Heaven came to power, he also raised ministers, such as Sima Guang and Wang Anshi, who pushed three times and resisted four times, and asked the Son of Heaven to ask for three times and five times, which made people feel that life was unreasonable.But the official summoned Zhang Echigo, and the other party entered the palace without saying a word.

Zhang Yue entered the palace again in a scarlet robe and whitebait bag. It has only been two years, but now he feels that the present is not what it used to be, as many places in the palace have been rebuilt.

When passing the first hall, Zhang Yue stopped and asked Li Xian, "Is this the Funing Hall?"

Li Xian nodded.

Funing Hall is the place where Emperor Renzong and the first emperor died of illness.

Zhang Yue came here and solemnly bowed to the hall from a distance.

Emperor Renzong had the grace to know him, but as for the first emperor...

Seeing this scene, Li Xian sighed again, and had a higher opinion of Zhang Yue.

After completing this set of rules, Zhang Yue followed Li Xian into the hall to face the saint.

After seeing the ceremony, the official stood up and downgraded to greet him personally: "Zhang Taichang, you are finally here."

Zhang Yue said: "I am summoned by His Majesty, I dare not neglect."

The official personally bent down to help Zhang Yue up. In the past, the emperor valued ministers and occasionally gave false support, but he really supported Zhang Yue.

"I dare not!"

Zhang Yue reckoned that the new king had just ascended the throne, and the previous etiquette in the palace could not be changed.

The official said to Zhang Yue: "If it weren't for the accounts reported to me by the third division, I would not expect the country to reach its current state. Even this time, I can hardly raise the money for the burial of the late emperor. As a son of man, I am so unfilial. , I feel ashamed."

"I know that Zhang Qing was wronged at the beginning, but the late emperor told me that the punishment was too often a court law, and he was punished as a last resort. Let Zhang Qing be appointed immediately after I ascended the throne. Today, I obey the late emperor's will, and finally I will be the general Zhang. Sir, please come back."

Zhang Yue was surprised when he heard the words, he didn't expect that it was the late emperor's will that the officials would revive him.

Thinking of all these years, he has been dissatisfied with the first emperor, now it seems that he has wrongly blamed him.

No matter what the truth is, it doesn't matter. Zhang Yue was about to answer, but Li Xian said: "Your Majesty, just now Zhang Taichang asked the late emperor before he issued an edict when he met his ministers, and at the end of the day, he bowed to the north with the people. .”

"That's it!"

When the officials thought of the late emperor, they also cried, "I also miss the late emperor."

Zhang Yue and Han Wei urged together: "My condolences to Your Majesty."

The official stopped his tears and said to Zhang Yue: "Zhang Qing is very good, the late emperor did not misjudge you."

Li Xian smiled and said: "Your Majesty, Zhang Taichang is a kind person. This time our family saw Zhang Taichang. He even argued with the magistrate about giving out porridge in the porridge field, and was chained up by the stupid officials. Fortunately, our family arrived one step earlier. "

"Is there such a thing?"

Zhang Yue said: "I have nothing to do, I have ordered Jingdong Road to punish this matter."

The official nodded and said: "Although the national treasury is not rich, I will not allow people to starve to death at the feet of the emperor."

The officials once again hold Zhang Yue in high regard. The other party is an ordinary person who dares to argue with a corrupt official and plead for the people. If he is an official, he will do his best for the country.

Where can I find such a righteous courtier?

Thinking of this, the official said: "I am eager to announce that Zhang Qing is here to ask you for advice on how to govern the country today."

(End of this chapter)