Rebirth of the best emperor

Chapter 39 Candidates

Before Yu Wenkai figured out where the money came from, Wang Mang gave Deng Fang a wink, and Deng Fang shouted directly:
"If you have something to play, you will retreat if there is nothing!"

All the officials looked at each other in dismay, completely unclear what the emperor was going to do, why did this thing feel endless, with a hammer here and a club here.

However, all the officials have not been able to react to the various things that happened in the early morning today, so none of them dare to speak at this time.

Then Deng Fang saw that all the officials were silent, so he glanced at the emperor and shouted: "Retire!"

So all the ministers shouted long live and welcomed Wang Mang to leave.

Wang Mang didn't want to go to the bathroom this time, but he simply didn't want to continue the discussion. The issues discussed today are too many and too sensitive. As the saying goes, too many words will lead to failure. There is no need to continue the discussion, and we can continue the discussion at the next court meeting.

Hundreds of officials left one after another, while several bigwigs in the imperial court looked at me and I looked at you. Finally, Zhang Jian looked at Li Hong and said, "Li Hong, what's the matter with you?"

Li Hong used to work under Zhang Jian. Although he was promoted to Shangshu, his rank was the same as Zhang Jian, but as the saying goes, he is a leader for a day and a leader for a lifetime, so Zhang Jian can call him by his name directly. Li Hong looked at Zhang Jian. Jian smiled wryly, and said, "My lord, I have no other choice!"

It's not a last resort, the emperor put a knife on his head, what can he do?If the strong man can't break his wrist, he can only jump into the river with him!

Yu Wenkai looked at Li Hong with a sad face and said, "God of Wealth, Your Majesty asked me to build the road. The Ministry of Industry does not have the money for this road construction. This requires your strong support!"

"Do you think I look rich?" Li Hong said with a bitter face: "My household department is empty, and there is no money in the treasury now."

"That's right!" Wang Yongji snorted coldly on the side: "Who told you to repair the city wall if you have nothing to do, anyway, it's all repairs, and it's not bad to build roads."

"Master Wang, I really have no selfishness at all." Yu Wenkai looked at Wang Yongji and said, "I just see that the city wall built by your Ministry of War is really slow, and I want to help!"

"Hehe." Wang Yongji's face was full of "Do you think I believe it?"

At this time Zhao Xin, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, spoke up and said: "My lords, our Ministry of Rites has always been a Qingshui yamen, and this time we have also suffered an unreasonable disaster from you all!"

"I blame Fang Xizhi, that old bastard!" Li Si, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, cursed: "If this old boy hadn't been imprisoned in Jinyiwei, let's see how my Ministry of Punishment will not let him..."

At this moment, Li Lan came over and said with a smile: "Several Shangshu adults, Your Majesty summons you!"

All the bosses looked at each other, not knowing what the emperor was looking for them for at this time, but when the emperor summoned them, they hurriedly followed Li Lan to the palace with different thoughts.

When we got to the place, we found Zhang Jian, Minister of Officials, Zhao Xin, Minister of Rites, Li Hong, Minister of Household, Yu Wenkai, Minister of Industry, Li Si, Minister of Punishment, Wang Yongji, Minister of Military Affairs, Haifeng, head of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Dali The minister of the temple, Shen Buhai, the ambassador of the General Administration Department, Gongsun Yan, and the nine ministers of the imperial court gathered together.

What is this for?Could it be that something major happened?
Everyone looked worried, and then they heard Deng Fang jump open the curtain, Wang Mang walked out, and the nine adults kowtowed: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

After a period of unhealthy blessings and golden peace, Zhang Jian, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, stood up and said, "I don't know what important matter your Majesty summoned the ministers for?"

"My lords, don't be nervous." Seeing the nervousness of these ministers, Wang Mang said with a smile in his heart: "Such a big incident happened to the court, and even the left servant of the household department was arrested. It is not yet possible to count the officials involved in the court, so I invited you here to let you find a way to appease the hearts of the officials."

"The ministers will follow the holy order, and after returning, they will come forward to appease the hearts of the people and relieve His Majesty's worries." The nine big bosses expressed their firm support for the emperor's wise decision, resolutely united under the leadership of the emperor-centered court, and resolutely eliminated inappropriate remarks. Resolutely put an end to anyone who tries to make trouble with this.

"Yes, with your words, I feel relieved." Wang Mang nodded with a smile. It is not easy to kill a servant of the household department, not to mention that there may be many officials involved by the servant of the household department, so Wang Mang called here Nine people, go help yourself to lower the fire on those officials who may cause trouble.

"It is the duty of the ministers to share the worries of His Majesty." The nine big brothers continued to express their views.

"Okay, I understand what you mean. I'm looking for you today, and I have other things to do." As soon as Wang Mang opened his mouth, he let the nine big brothers know that this was the main topic. They immediately looked at Wang Mang calmly, and waited. Wang Mang opened his mouth.

Wang Mang looked around the crowd, pondered for a moment and said, "As soon as Fang Xizhi goes, who do you think can take over as the left servant of the household department?"

As soon as Wang Mang finished speaking, everyone looked at Li Hong in unison, wondering if Li Hong had done something bad, and why the emperor targeted them so much.

As soon as Fang Xizhi was arrested, the emperor anxiously wanted to put people in the household department. Needless to say, it was the household department that offended the emperor severely!

But after thinking about it, you adults have some thoughts. Li Hong has been in the household department for more than ten years. Hong's teacher can say that it will take ten years for Li Hong to manage the household department like an iron bucket, and no one can get in.

But the household department is a place where all the yamen in the world have to deal with. If you don't have a good relationship with the household department, you don't even want to get a penny out of the household department.

Let’s not talk about it far away, let’s just talk about everyone present, whose yamen has not been owed money by the household department.

If the court's finances were really so tight, how could Fang Xizhi be so rich.

So when the household department was almost cleaned up, all the adults moved their minds, and they all wanted to take this opportunity to install their own people in the royal household department, or people who had a good relationship with them, so that when they asked for money next time, they would Easy to do, isn't it?
But Li Hong pursed his lips, and finally said bravely: "According to the rules, the left servant is gone, and the right servant will take over. Deng Tongshan, the right servant of the household department, has been working diligently and conscientiously to serve His Majesty since he took office. , I think Deng Tong, the right servant of the household department, should take over the position of the left servant of the household department."

"What do you adults think?" Wang Mang looked at the others.

"Deng Tong is indeed an expert in financial management. He is the left servant, and I have no objection." Zhang Jian, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, spoke first.

Seeing Zhang Jian nodding, several other adults also nodded in agreement. In fact, Deng Tong being the left servant did not do any harm to them. Everyone knew that Deng Tong was a rigorous and clean-handed person, and he was as perfect as Fang Xizhi. It's different, and it's only natural for the right servant to be promoted to the left servant.

Besides, it was probably not Li Hong's sincere idea to let Deng Tong recognize Zuo Shilang. It was because Fang Xizhi fell too quickly, and Li Hong couldn't come up with a suitable person for a while.

"Then who can take over as the right servant of the household department?"

Seeing that everyone had no objection, Wang Mang asked, he had heard of Deng Tongshan's reputation for financial management, and Wang Mang thought it was okay to let him serve as the left servant, but Wang Mang, the right servant of the household department, had his own ideas.

(End of this chapter)