People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 460: What is the look of the civil servants who are all smelly?
Only now did these civil officials finally realize that these military generals were not as easy to bully as they had imagined.

They are also very smart.

People can also discipline themselves.

There were twelve civil servants, but not a single one of them had a sedan chair.

I could only walk on the ground and follow Zhang Yu's horse.

Just now they spoke so badly of Zhang Yu.

It was said that people were very disrespectful to the imperial envoy from the capital.

They also said that it must be Zhu Di who sent the people here to deliberately intercept them and humiliate them.

Some even said that Zhu Di must be feeling guilty.

You said such harsh words, how can you have the nerve to ask others for a sedan chair for you to ride in now?

It’s embarrassing to say that our sedan chair was made stinky by the rotten eggs thrown by the common people, and we didn’t dare to sit on it.

This is really hard for those civil servants who want to save face.

But these civil servants might not know that the sedan bearers following behind were all very happy at this moment.

They carried these civil servants all the way from the capital to Beiping Prefecture. It was a long journey and their legs were thin. Now they can finally take a break.

Of course, some sedan bearers actually had resentment.

We are just the ones carrying the sedan chair, it is none of our business.

Whether or not the civil servants are suspicious of your Beiping Prefecture is their business.

But why do we have to suffer this unexpected disaster?

Just now, many sedan chair bearers were hit by rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs, and now many of them are covered in stench.

I guess even if they changed the sedan chair, the officials would not allow the current bearers to carry it. They are happy to have some free time.

The common people were particularly happy to see this scene.

Let you come and investigate our Beiping Prefecture.

Since you are so disrespectful to our Beiping Prefecture, you should be allowed to walk in.

There wasn't even any musical instrument band playing music to welcome them along the way.

Just like watching monkeys, these twelve civil servants followed Zhang Yu's horse team, escorted by the common people.

Those who didn't know might have thought that these civil servants had committed some crime and were arrested by Zhang Yu, who then made them walk on the ground to the prince's palace for trial.

After walking four miles, some civil servants could no longer bear it.

Looking at the bearers carrying empty sedan chairs behind them, they gritted their teeth, stamped their feet, turned around and said to the bearers, "Stop the sedan chair. I want to sit on it."

After saying this, in front of everyone's surprised gaze, the civil servant walked towards the stinking sedan chair.

Once you open it, the smell inside is even stronger.

But there was no other way. If he didn't take such a sedan chair, he would have to walk to the palace.

He didn't know how far the palace was from here, but he knew that if he really walked there, he would probably be exhausted to death.

As soon as the civil servant entered, he pinched his nose and shouted, "Go!"

The sedan bearers didn't say anything and just carried him and followed.

When the other civil servants saw that someone had taken the lead, they glared at Zhang Yu fiercely.

In the end, there was no choice but to turn around and go back to sit in the stinky sedan.

After they sat in, the smell was so bad that they almost vomited.

But he probably had the same idea as the civil servant mentioned above. If he didn't take such a sedan chair, he might really have to walk to the palace.

In the end, they could only transfer all their hatred to Zhang Yu and Zhu Di.

When the people saw these civil servants looking aggrieved, they all burst into laughter.

"It's not working anymore, it's not working anymore. I've always said that you civil servants who are used to enjoying life can't stand any hardship at all."

Some people even said sarcastically, "Who says it's not true? They eat well, dress well, sleep well, and have always been enjoying a peaceful and carefree life.

Now people are asked to run to this place to walk, how can they bear it?

Unlike us, the common people living on the border, we can only endure the invasion of the foreign Tartars.

Only His Royal Highness will sympathize with us, and these civil servants have no idea of ​​our suffering."

What the common people said was so sarcastic and they said it with a pinched nose, mocking these civil servants for not being considerate of the common people.

He even mocked these civil servants, who thought they were so great that they wanted to investigate this and that and suspect this and that.

Although the common people did not say it explicitly, it was of course the civil servants inside who could understand the elegant meaning just by listening to the string music.

How could they not hear that they were all scolding them?

But these twelve civil servants actually felt very aggrieved.

They believed that they came to investigate the situation in Beiping Prefecture in order to give an explanation to the common people and the people of the world.

You must know that the war in Beiping Prefecture is no longer Beiping Prefecture’s own war.

More of a war throughout the world.

Now we are fighting in Japan in the east and conquering other countries in Indochina in the south.

Who is suffering from wars everywhere?
It is the common people who suffer.

Although we are not fighting within our own borders now, the increase in taxes will not harm the people, right?
Of course, we haven't seen any signs of this yet.

However, these civil servants boast that they can be prepared for danger in times of peace and see a more distant future.

So they feel that no matter what, war is not a good thing.

We, the civil servants, have to come forward to negotiate with the enemy country.

Even if we have to pay some military expenses to the enemy country, that doesn't matter.

Because it is a small country and everyone there has never seen the world.

Giving them some begging money is nothing.

As long as we don't have to fight a war and our people's taxes don't increase, that's fine.

As for the so-called face and the so-called national dignity, none of them are important.

So now they feel particularly aggrieved that the common people do not understand them.

We are obviously doing this for your own good.

We are clearly trying to make Ming Dynasty a better place.

Our purpose is obviously to avoid wars in the future and to prevent you from increasing taxes. Why don't you understand?
You should understand.

That’s what they thought in their hearts.

So naturally they feel quite aggrieved that the common people do not treat them well at all.

I have to say that these people are very good at imagining.

I think the common people should understand their efforts.

We should not welcome them with rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs just because they come to investigate.

So everyone has a ball of anger burning in their heart.

I feel that the common people really don’t know what’s good for them.

We are the ones who do this for your own good.

We, the talented ones, should be respected by you.

You should lift us up high and do what you individuals have done.

You are simply a bunch of unruly people. You have been so indoctrinated by Zhu Di's sugar-coated bullets that you don't even know the difference between good and bad.

They were all so angry in their hearts that they even thought in their hearts that it was really hard to tell what was good and what was bad.

You unruly people deserve it because you know nothing and you live in dire straits.

We, the civil servants, should be cherished by you, but you don't.

This is the awakening of you people.

You people deserve to be deceived by Zhu Di.

The more the common people bullied them and ridiculed them, the more they wanted to vent all their anger on Zhu Di.

I guess Zhu Di would feel aggrieved at this time, because we clearly did not mobilize the common people to besiege you imperial envoys.

Even though we are very angry now, we still understand some rules of officialdom.

You are imperial envoys of the imperial court. Even if we are angry with you, we will not attack those imperial envoys.

It's just that the common people are fed up with your behavior. It's a spontaneous organization and has nothing to do with us.

How can all this be blamed on us?

When this group of civil servants were carried to Zhu Di's residence in the smelly sedan chair.

Zhu Di and the princess were waiting at the door to greet them.

The moment when the stench of rotten eggs drifted over with the wind.

Many officials standing in the palace frowned.

Some officials even pinched their noses and discussed in low voices on the sidelines.

"What style is this? Did you sweat and stink from the long journey?"

"Not at all, not at all. Civil servants all have to save face, and they won't sweat and make the sedan so smelly."

"No, this smell seems to be the smell of rotten eggs."

"That's strange. Logically speaking, these civil servants are all very self-disciplined. If the sedan chair was so smelly, they should have changed it long ago. Why did they deliberately bring it here to embarrass us?"

"That's really weird!"

"Weird!"

Everyone found it very strange, considering that civil servants are very particular.

Especially for an imperial envoy from the capital, no matter how shameless he is, he would not come here with a sedan chair that stinks. Isn't that embarrassing?
But when they saw Zhang Yu sitting on the horse with an unconcealable smile on his face, Zhu Neng was the first to notice something a little different.

He and Zhang Yu have fought side by side for so many years and he knows that Zhang Yu is usually a very tactful person, but if he is really made angry, he will not be so easy to deal with and will definitely cause some trouble.

Is it the same this time?

Zhu Di looked at Yao Guangxiao beside him and asked in a low voice: "Master, what are those civil servants doing?"

Yao Guangxiao didn't know either, so he put his hands together and said, "Amitabha, I don't know."

"Then we'll have to wait until they get here before asking."

When everyone was surprised, the sedan chair was finally slowly lifted in front of them.

When it got to the front, the smell became even stronger, almost making everyone fall to the ground.

In particular, I saw that many of the sedan chair bearers had rotten vegetable leaves hanging on their faces and bodies, or were covered with dark brown egg liquid.

The smell was unbearable.

Even the rough guys in the army rarely take a bath during daily training, and the smell when they lie together is very unpleasant.

They have a very strong ability to tolerate bad smells.

But it's still hard to compare with these rotten eggs.

After these rotten eggs are fermented, the smell is simply intoxicating.

So when the sedan chair came over, Zhu Di was going to lead the civil and military officials to pay their respects to the imperial envoy.

But when the smell hit them, no one had the courage to move forward.

At this moment, the sedan chair had just landed on the ground, and the official inside came out of the sedan chair by himself.

Then, without waiting for the bearers to press down the sedan chair, the civil officials jumped over the sedan chair poles.

Then, to everyone's surprise, twelve civil servants got out of the sedan chair, each holding onto a tree trunk and retching.

Some civil servants even vomited out their bitter bile, which was so smelly that it was unbearable to smell.

This scene happening in front of Zhu Di and his people was really unexpected.

The high-ranking officials in the capital that they knew were all very arrogant.

Wherever they go, they are all very elegant.

Even everyone is the second emperor when he goes to the local area.

Even if you are a prince, you have to behave yourself if you meet them.

Otherwise, it would be terrible if they sued me.

At the very least, he would be called to the capital to be reprimanded.

In serious cases, the offender may be fined or demoted directly.

Therefore, Zhu Di would never dare to offend these people easily.

But seeing that they were so unlike themselves, I was still stunned.

To be fair, Zhu Di really wanted to go up and talk to the imperial envoys at this time.

But Zhu Di really couldn't stand the smell on them, especially the twelve officials, which was so strong that it was unbearable.

Fortunately, their followers were resting at the post station outside the city.

If we come together, we'll all be hit by eggs.

If there were hundreds of people standing in front of them, they would probably be scared away.

After Zhu Di had endured for a long time, he finally came forward with the civil and military officials and asked, "I wonder what the adults are doing?"

An official replied: “Your Highness, if you want to ask, ask the general. He saw it clearly, but he saw it but did not stop it.

I don’t know if this is your idea, and if it is, I really don’t know what you mean by this.”

Zhu Di was completely confused and had no idea what they were trying to say.

But they saw Zhang Yu still laughing while sitting on the horse.

Zhang Yu has been enduring this for a long time.

As he walked on the road, he heard the officials in the sedan chairs retching.

They were considered amazing if they could hold back from vomiting in the sedan.

Now, as soon as these civil servants came out, they held onto the trees and vomited non-stop, causing Zhang Yu to finally be unable to hold back his laughter.

Seeing Zhang Yu lose his composure, Zhu Di finally asked, "What's going on?"

Zhang Yu immediately dismounted, walked up to Zhu Di and whispered to him what happened at the city gate.

When Zhu Di heard that the officials were beaten into this state by the welcoming team spontaneously formed by the common people, he couldn't help laughing and almost laughed out loud.

But even though he just laughed, the twelve officials opposite looked at Zhu Di with murderous eyes.

Some officials were so angry that they jumped up and scolded: "Your Highness, you have won a great victory, you should be rewarded by the court.

It's really unfair for you that we come here to investigate.

But we are all officials in the court, so shouldn’t we pay attention to official friendship?
Do we have to pay more attention to our face?
When we enter the city, we don’t ask for the people to line the streets to welcome us, but we also don’t want them to welcome us with rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs.”

When the officials of Beiping Prefecture heard these words, they were all stunned.

I never expected that these twelve officials were made into this state by the people...

(End of this chapter)