Monument Yangmen

Chapter 877 An Assist from the People
The next day.

early morning.

Qianyuan Hall.

The cold wind whistled outside the hall, making the piercing sound of spoons. All the officials, wrapped in thick furs, ran quickly from the gate of the palace into the Qianyuan Hall.

Inside and outside the hall are like two worlds.

It was cold and windy outside the hall, and it was so hot inside that it made people sweat.

The ground fire dragon was burning fiercely, making people's faces flushed.

After the officials entered the hall, they took off their furs and got together in small groups, discussing in low voices.

Li Yushi stepped into the hall step by step amidst the discussions among the officials.

His face was full of sorrow and tragedy, as if he was a loyal hero who was going to sacrifice his life for the great affairs of the country.

After seeing him, all the officials subconsciously stopped discussing, and all eyes fell on him.

All the officials knew what Li Yushi was going to do today, because last night, after Kong Lianjie made it clear to him, he sent someone to let the officials know.

"Brother Li!"

Li Yushi found his place, and when he stood still, someone stepped forward and bowed to him respectfully.

"Brother Li, Gao Yi, I feel ashamed. After today, Brother Li will definitely be admired by tens of millions of scholars all over the world."

"Brother Li, I will accept the next obeisance..."

"Brother Li, don't worry, I will take care of the family members of your family. As long as I wait for the day, I will definitely protect Li's family and continue to prosper."

"..."

Hundreds of officials stepped forward one after another to salute Li Yushi.

An ugly smile appeared on Li Yushi's face, and he said in a hoarse voice: "For the tens of millions of scholars in the world...Li is obliged..."

"Brother Li Gao Yi..."

"..."

"His Majesty is here!"

While the officials were busy praising Li Yushi, Chen Lin walked slowly from behind the screen of Qianyuan Hall to the hall, raised her sharp voice, and shouted.

All the officials immediately lined up and waited with bows.

Yang Qi, dressed in black water and black dragon robe, strode up the imperial steps with great strides, glanced all over the officials, and sat down slowly.

"See Your Majesty, may my emperor be in good health."

Yang Qi stared at the officials for ten breaths before saying, "Pingshen..."

When facing the court today, Yang Qi guessed that something must happen in the court today just by looking at the officials.

And he could tell that what happened in the courtroom today must have something to do with Li Yushi.

All the officials involuntarily highlighted Li Yushi in front of him. He is not blind, so how could he not see it.

"If you have something to play, you will retreat if there is nothing!"

Chen Lin routinely yelled.

Li Yushi hesitated for a moment, and stepped out under the eyes of everyone.

"I have a book to play!"

Yang Qihu stared slightly, and said in a low voice: "Speak."

Li Yushi immediately took out the memorial that had been prepared from his sleeve, and recited it frustratingly.

"Since the various schools of thought, Confucianism has always lived in..."

Li Yushi read a lot, roughly counting the contributions of Confucianism to the people of the Han family. After the detailed counting, he bowed deeply and said: "Therefore, I am admonishing you with death, and I ask your majesty to open it." Imperial examinations, recruit talented people."

Yang Qi narrowed his eyes, and asked in a cold voice, "If I don't allow it, are you really going to admonish me with death?"

Li Yushi solemnly said: "For the sake of the Great Yanjiang Mountains and the country, and for the people of the world, I will never hesitate to die."

Yang Qi gritted his teeth and said, "I won't allow it!"

Li Yushi raised his head, glanced at Yang Qi, and resolutely slammed into the pillar beside him.

Yang Qi raised his brows and hurriedly said: "Stop him."

However, the officials knew the mission that Li Yushi was going to take on, so instead of blocking it, they gave way to Li Yushi's way to rush to the big pillar in the hall.

"Bang~"

His head hit the pillar heavily, and with the huge impact, the Qianyuan Hall trembled a little bit.

The blood splashed three feet high and fell to the ground, spilling out a bloody flower.

The hot floor tiles, just a few breaths roasted Yin Hong's blood into black red.

Yang Qi stared at his eyes and stood up abruptly.

He was shocked and angry.

All the officials didn't look at Li Yushi who died tragically at all, but they all looked at Yang Qi with angry and determined eyes.

Yang Qi's heart twitched, thinking something was wrong.

He finally knew how Baiguan was going to deal with him today.

Remonstrating with death is softer than him.

"His Majesty!"

Immediately, someone gritted their teeth and let out a low growl, glaring at Yang Qi.

"Your Majesty, please reopen the imperial examination. If Your Majesty does not allow it, I will imitate Li Yushi and crash into this hall today."

"Your Majesty, please reopen the imperial examination!"

"..."

Hundreds of officials spoke one after another, taking advantage of Li Yushi's tragic death to put pressure on Yang Qi.

Yang Qi's face was so gloomy that water dripped out, and he subconsciously clenched his fists together.

Seeing that Yang Qi was silent, an official stepped forward again, gritted his teeth and said, "Your Majesty can't feel our determination to wait?"

Time passed by every minute and every second.

The atmosphere in Qianyuan Hall became extremely oppressive.

"Report!"

At this moment, a loud shout came from outside the hall.

Putting on his armor and saber, Peng Pai rushed into the hall and said anxiously, "Your Majesty, Hong Kong City is in a hurry."

Yang Qi breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly said, "Speak quickly!"

Peng Pai couldn't hide the shock on his face, and said: "According to the report from the magistrate of Gangcheng County, there are gold mountains coming from the sea?"

"Gold Mountain?"

All the officials were taken aback for a moment, and there was an instant uproar.

For a while, the massive wealth narrowed the eyes of many officials.

Of course, there were also those who were unmoved, they stared at Yang Qi coldly.

Someone asked in the hall, "Your Majesty, you haven't agreed to reopen the imperial examination yet."

Then he glanced at Peng Pai contemptuously, and said with disdain: "As for whether what Peng Pai said is true, it remains to be verified."

Apparently, they felt that the so-called Jinshan was just a drama staged by Yang Qi and Peng Pai, the purpose of which was to shirk the resumption of the imperial examination.

"That's right, so what if there is a real golden mountain? For us Dayan, the real golden mountain is the tens of millions of scholars in the world."

"..."

After Peng Pai appeared, Yang Qi breathed a sigh of relief. Facing the persecution of the officials, he was surprisingly calm.

He just glanced at the officials who persecuted him, and said calmly: "As important ministers in the court, you should understand what the sudden addition of a golden mountain means to the Great Yan Kingdom and what it means to the people of the Great Yan Kingdom.

You only see tens of millions of scholars in your eyes, can't you see the common people thousands of times more than scholars?
Are you an official of the people, or an official of scholars? "

The officials used scholars in the world to persecute Yang Qi, and Yang Qi used the excuse of Jinshan's appearance to counterattack with the common people in the world.

None of the officials in the court dared to say that he was just a scholar.

If someone dares to speak out, what greets him is a vast ocean of people.

Seeing that Yang Qi was going to use Jinshan's excuse to shirk the resumption of the imperial examination in the past again.

The officials were a little flustered.

If Yang Qi were to evade the past, then Li Yushi would have died in vain today.

"Your Majesty, the matter of Jinshan has not yet been verified. If it is just a cover, but it delays the Hall of Talents, how will I explain to the people at that time?"

Yang Qi slowly put his hands behind his back, and said calmly: "I don't know if it's a cover. Why don't you all go to Hong Kong City with me, and investigate this matter together."

"His Majesty?!"

"That's it, let's go back to court. Go back and pack your things, and head to Hong Kong City tomorrow."

"..."

After leaving this sentence, Yang Qi shook his sleeves and left Qianyuan Hall.

All the officials look at me and I look at you, their faces are extremely ugly.

Li Yushi died in vain when he was disturbed by Jinshan floating from the sea.

"Retreat~"

Chen Lin yelled, and left Qianyuan Hall with her fly whisk.

Hundreds of officials got together in groups of three or four, discussing countermeasures, and left Qianyuan Hall with long sighs.

After a stick of incense.

There was only one corpse left in Qianyuan Hall, lying there alone.

That was Li Yushi's body.

To the officials, Li Yushi is just a pawn, and now this pawn has not played its due role, so naturally no one pays attention to him anymore.

What's more, he has become a dead chess player.

As for the promises made by the officials before the court, they are nothing more than some occasional words.

……

Inside the imperial study.

Yang Qi, who returned to the royal study, took off his dragon robe, put on thin clothes, sat on the kang, and sighed.

"These civil servants are really dark-hearted. In order to persecute me, they don't hesitate to use death to force them."

Yang Qi said to Peng Pai who was standing on the edge of the heated kang: "Thanks to you coming in time, otherwise, I don't know how to step down. Su Yijian has done a good job with this job. You will bring him a message later, and when the matter is over, I reward him with a few jugs of fine wine."

Peng Pai hesitated for a moment, and said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, there are really mountains of gold coming from the sea."

"I know, I know, I planned this matter with Su Yijian..."

"Your Majesty, our fake gold mountain is useless..."

Peng Pai said something quietly.

Yang Qi was taken aback, and suddenly his eyes widened, "Is there really a golden mountain?"

"Ok!"

"what happened?"

Yang Qi got off the kang with bare feet, ran to Peng Pai and asked.

Peng Pai said seriously: "Your Majesty, do you still remember that you once told someone about the Maurya Dynasty?"

Yang Qi was shocked and said: "Someone really went?"

Peng Pai nodded, "Someone really went there. According to reports from the people below, these people seized the gold of ten large five-fanged ships from the Maurya Dynasty, and filled them to the brim.

Now they are docked at the seaport outside Hong Kong City. They spent a lot of money and hired more than 1 soldiers and horses to protect them through the Yan State Money Bank. "

"Hahaha……"

Yang Qi laughed heartily, "God help me too! Hahahahaha..."

"Immediately go down and prepare, and get up and go to Hong Kong City early tomorrow morning."

"promise!"

"Also, tell the people below, let them spread the news quickly, and prepare for what we have to do later."

"..."

……

It turns out.

The attraction of wealth is beyond imagination.

In just half a day, the news of Jinshan coming from the sea spread throughout Yanjing City.

The officials also wanted to take advantage of Li Yushi's death to create some rumors to deal with Yang Qi.

However, as soon as their rumors spread, they were quickly suppressed by Jinshan's rumors.

Whether the imperial court does not open the imperial examination actually has little impact on the common people.

Because the common people know that even if the imperial court does not conduct imperial examinations, there will be no shortage of officials.

Every year, the imperial court transfers a large number of students from Datong Academy to serve as officials.

Yang Qi didn't seal off the road to the rise of the humble family, but expanded the road to a greater extent.

Moreover, the imperial court continued to popularize education.

It's too late for the common people to be happy, so how could they help Confucianism deal with Yang Qi?

The news of Jinshan on the sea has intensified, overshadowing all other news.

The civil officials who advocated the reopening of the imperial examination felt the status of money in the hearts of the common people, and they found it helplessly.

If this wave of Jinshan cannot pass, any measures they use to put pressure on Yang Qi will be of no avail.

Forced to do nothing, they can only pin their hopes on the fake news that Jinshan in the sea is a lie.

therefore.

When Yang Qi led the officials to the port city, the officials were extremely active.

Early in the morning, when the sky was getting bright, the officials asked their servants to drive the carriage and wait for Yang Qi on the official road outside Yanjing City.

After Yang Qi's Long Lun arrived, a team of thousands of people rushed towards the port city.

Follow them all the way.

The news about the golden mountain on the sea was spread like a plague.

There was a huge commotion all over the country.

Some qualified people and businessmen simply left their jobs and dragged their families to Hong Kong City to visit the Golden Mountain on the Sea.

Marching all the way, under Yang Qi's deliberate control, it took six days to reach the port city.

A farewell.

Hong Kong City looks more prosperous.

Just outside the city of Hong Kong, there is already a lot of traffic, the crowd is crowded with each other, and all kinds of hawking sounds come and go.

Along the Gangcheng Avenue, looking all the way to the sea, what you see are sailing boats and large ships that can't be seen at the end.

The fishermen are full of catches and rush to the port for sale.

In the most dazzling position of the port, there is a fleet docked there.

The more than 1 elite Yan State Navy guarded the side. Anyone who tried to approach the fleet would be ruthlessly driven and suppressed by the Yan State Navy.

However, even so, there are still quite a few people standing outside the encirclement of the Yan State Navy, constantly poking their heads inside to inquire.

Yang Qi sat on the dragon, looked at the place, and asked Peng Pai in a low voice, "Is that the fleet full of gold?"

Peng Pai nodded and said, "Yes!"

Yang Qi nodded in agreement, "Go to the port city first, and after the camp is settled, let the chiefs of those fleets come to see me, I have something to ask."

"No~"

Yang Qi's frame entered the port city under heavy escort.

Compared with the outside of Hong Kong City, the inside of Hong Kong City is still prosperous, but it is a little less busy than outside the city, but more elegant and magnificent.

I don't know if it's the intention of the merchants or the county magistrate of the port city. Almost all large-scale fishing transactions are delivered outside the city, and the goods are piled up in warehouses outside the city.

Instead, the city is dominated by eating, drinking and having fun, and there are no large-scale trading scenes.

Yang Qi went to the port city for a temporary camp.

After a brief wash, he summoned the magistrate of Gangcheng, and after a few words of encouragement, he explained the purpose of his trip.

When Yang Qi wanted to summon the head of the fleet, the magistrate of Gangcheng left the camp tactfully.

Yang Qi asked Peng Pai to prepare a table of good food and wine, and then invited the chief of the fleet to camp.

(End of this chapter)