food queen

Chapter 241 The Confrontation at the Banquet (5)
"Get off!" the emperor said angrily.

Yang Dechen still knelt there motionless, not rolling at all.

"Come on!" Yun Shuo yelled violently, "Give me this old bastard!"

As soon as the words fell, an old official with a gray beard rose up from Yang Dechen's table. While shouting, he came forward and kowtowed beside Yang Dechen, "Your Majesty! I beg Your Majesty to be merciful!"

"Shang Shilian, what do you have to say?!" Yun Shuo asked angrily.

"Your Majesty! The princess of the Han family really doesn't have the virtues of a queen! Yang Dechen is only thinking about my Dayun's country and society, so he will remonstrate with Yan Zhizhi! Please think twice, Your Majesty, please be merciful!" As he spoke, he kowtowed heavily.

Yun Shuo gritted his teeth and looked at the two old ministers kneeling at his feet. Not to mention this Yang Dechen, he also taught the lessons of the royal family in Shangshuyuan in his early years. A plaque was given, and the imperial pen wrote "directly admonishing and admonishing ministers".

So facing such two veterans, Yun Shuo couldn't kill them even if he had 1 thoughts of killing them.

"Shang Shilian, I'll just say it once, get up and get out. Otherwise, don't blame me for being rude to you two!" Yun Shuo gritted his teeth.

"Your Majesty! The minister would rather die than die!" Shang Shilian kowtowed heavily, and a bruise suddenly appeared on his forehead, making his old and thin face look very hideous. "I beg your Majesty to take back the imperial edict! Choose another virtuous and filial son Women are queens!"

"Shang Shilian! Don't think that I dare not kill you!" Yun Shuo said angrily.

"Brother Emperor." Han Qian, who was kneeling next to him for a while, stood up slowly with Apple's hand beside him, moved his numb legs, walked slowly to the emperor, and said with a calm smile: "I I have a few words to ask these two loyal ministers."

Yun Shuo looked at Han Qian apologetically, and sighed, "What? You can ask."

Han Qian turned around and looked at the two old ministers kneeling on the ground, and asked loudly, "Master Yang, how dare you ask how high you are now? Lord Shang, which government office do you belong to?"

"This old man is the editor of the fifth-rank Hanlin Academy! I used to be a professor in Shangshuyuan, so I can be regarded as half of His Majesty's teacher!" Yang Dechen said coldly.

"The old minister is the speaker of the sixth branch and the seventh rank! But the holy grandfather has long had a will, and the seventh rank of the sixth branch can talk about the affairs of the world! From the emperor to the common people, we have nothing to say! Our six branch Officials eat this bowl of rice!" Shang Shilian.

"Okay! Well said!" Han Qian turned to look at Yun Shuo with a smile, and asked, "Brother Emperor, you just issued an imperial decree to make me the empress, so can I be the future empress with these two?" How much did the old minister say?"

Yun Shuo didn't know what evil idea Han Qian had in mind, but he would never let her lose face at this time, so he nodded and said, "Yes."

"Okay, Your Majesty allows it, so I'll say it." Han Qian turned around and walked up to the two old officials, and asked Yang Dechen first: "Master Yang, how much is your monthly salary, can you live well at home? Old mother? What kind of order is your wife? How many children do you have, and are they all earning a decent living now?"

"Hmph!" Yang Dechen had just been silenced by the emperor, and now when he heard Han Qian's question, he straightened his neck and looked away, ignoring Han Qian.

"Yang Dechen, I ordered you to answer Princess Han's words honestly." Yun Shuo seemed to have understood what Han Qian was going to do, so he raised his chin and ordered in a cold voice.

"The old minister obeys the order." Yang Dechen kowtowed to the emperor, glanced at Han Qian again, and then replied: "I am upright and honest, and I will give you twenty guan of silver and sixty stones of lumi every month. Thanks to your majesty's blessing, Life is not bad! In addition, there is a mother in seventy-two! My old wife has no imperial title. I have three sons and four daughters. My son is studying hard at the poor window. He only waits for the imperial examination to be an official and serve the country. My daughter is married and lives independently. But what does this have to do with you, Princess Han?"

"How can it have nothing to do with me? Lord Yang has worked hard in compiling the annals of the previous dynasty in the Imperial Academy. If His Majesty canonize me as a queen in the future, I will reward you with 3000 taels of silver first, as long as you take back the words you just offended me, How about it?"

Yiguan money is almost equal to one or two taels of silver. With Yang Dechen's salary, it is less than 300 taels of silver a year.If he is really clean and honest, then 3000 taels of silver are enough to cover his ten-year salary.

However, such clear money calculations are simply a naked humiliation to this kind of civil servant who always puts his character on his lips.

"You! You you..." Yang Dechen blushed with anger, pointing at Han Qian speechless.

"Why, you are not satisfied?" Han Qian turned around with a light smile and looked at Shang Shilian, "Sir Shang, what about you? You are a seventh-rank official, and your salary for one month is only one-third of that of Lord Yang." No? Your family lives on your little salary. If you are honest and honest, you may not even have the money to buy charcoal for heating in winter, right? You take back what you just said, and I will give you 3000 taels as well."

"Shameless demon girl!" Shang Shilian jumped up angrily, pointed at Han Qian and cursed: "You actually insulted me with those yellow and white things! You...you are simply unreasonable! I don't know what it means! No...unforgivable!"

"Haha..." Han Qian chuckled and shook her head, "Can't 3000 taels of silver buy you scholars' integrity? That's fine. Then, how about 1 taels?"

"Shut up! Shut up!" Yang Dechen also jumped up from the ground and threw his tantrum at Han Qian.

Following the two's irritability, many officials from the six departments and the civil servants of the Hanlin Academy left the meeting to accuse Han Qian, saying that she insulted the integrity of scholars and insulted them with gold and silver in front of civil and military officials. His integrity is simply intolerable!
"You scholars pay attention to integrity, and your strength of character cannot be questioned? But in my opinion, anything can be discussed, and anyone is valuable! Just like your official rank, first rank and fifth rank, are ninety stones The difference between Lumi and Seventy Stone Lumi is that everyone has to eat, no matter whether they are princes, princes or ordinary people, no one can live without silver and rice."

Han Qian sneered and looked at the group of civil servants who were gesticulating in front of him, nodded and sighed, "Okay, maybe 1 taels of silver is not worth your bow. So, what about 3 taels?" He took off the ring and shook it, "This ring was given by the former empress, and now I can take it to Hengtong Pawnshop to mortgage 3 taels of cash. Whoever wants it can stand over there and kowtow three times to His Majesty." Bye, say 'Your Majesty is wise'. The ring belongs to whoever it is."

"It's too much!" Yang Dechen stamped his feet and beat his chest angrily, and howled to the sky: "Your Majesty actually allows a woman like a street shrew like you to enter the Central Palace. It is really my misfortune, Dayun Dynasty!"

However, 3 taels of silver is still quite tempting.

No matter how much Yang Dechen and monk Shilian cried, someone stood up and left the table, bowed three times to the emperor, and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty is wise!"

(End of this chapter)