Concubine, please respect yourself

Chapter 36
In Chaoyang Hall, all the officials lowered their heads one by one, whispering in low voices about what the sage said just now.

"I think it's inappropriate." Out of the group of ministers came out a man with a dignified body and a dignified appearance. His eyes were staring at cold stars. Although there were silver threads on his temples, he made people feel extremely energetic.

Seeing that he was wearing a purple round-neck court dress and a goldfish pendant on his waist, he was about 45 years old, and he walked to the imperial court calmly.

This person is right minister Wang Yuzhou, besides holding a lot of power, he is also the uncle of the dynasty, so what he says has certain weight.

Emperor Zhao had already expected that Long Yan had not changed.

"Why does Prime Minister Right think it's inappropriate?"

"Lu Jinyan once served as Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, but when he was in office, the treasury was empty every year, and he couldn't afford ten thousand taels of silver in disaster years, so he could only find ways to get some money from merchants. How can a sage keep such ineffective officials? To be a lord is to give dignity." Wang Yuzhou's words were not adulterated, and every word was accurate.

He didn't leave any sympathy for Emperor Zhao, and at the same time reminded all the officials and ministers of the disaster Lu Jinyan caused back then.

Lu Jinyan used to be the Secretary of the Household Department, managing the financial power of Dongying, but the tax policy has been dropped again and again, just because he sympathized with the suffering of the people, but he never thought that he would suffer the consequences.

Later, because he was involved in two corruption cases, the truth could not be found out, and he had no face, so he resigned hastily and returned home.

Emperor Zhao sympathized with his father's great contributions to Dongying, and did not take back the Lord, but only took over the house in Beijing.

Hearing Prime Minister Right's words, many staff members of the Second Prince's Mansion agreed.

For a moment, Chaoyang Hall was full of voices, and the noise was unbearable.

"Enough." The person sitting on the dragon chair slapped the armrest vigorously. After using some strength, his face suddenly turned pale, and he coughed heart-piercingly.

The ministers hurriedly held their breath, and put aside the voices of controversy.

"The Duke of Lu's contribution to the case of Yanyin in Suzhou is indispensable. If there is no government of the State of Lu to apply salt, the people of Suzhou City may riot." Li Que, the prime minister of the left, came out and talked casually after Shi Li got up, quite neutral.

As soon as Li Po's remarks came out, the palace was full of arguments again.

Ying Su stood calmly by the side all the time, recorded all the faces of the advisers of the various factions in the palace, and waited and watched the situation.

"I feel that it is inappropriate for Duke Lu to return to the capital. Your Majesty, please take it back." Wang Yuzhou knelt down and bowed his head in a loud voice, which was bound to kill the saint's idea.

Seeing this, the civil servants headed by the Prime Minister on the right looked at each other, knelt down in the hall together, and urged in unison: "Please take back your order, Your Majesty!"

More than half of the civil servants kneeling on the ground were from aristocratic families, and they naturally did not want Duke Lu to return to the capital and re-divide the situation in the capital.

"You... Are you forcing me?" Emperor Zhao stretched out his bony arm, pointing to the group of rebellious officials below.

No one in the hall responded, only waiting for Emperor Zhao's final decision.

"Father, just listen to uncle!" The second prince Yingzhao also knelt in this hall for some reason.

Good to come!
Just seeing the officials obstructing him, Ying Su's expression was gloomy, but now seeing that Ying Zhao actually uttered admonishment to his father to obey the Prime Minister, there was some sarcasm in his eyes.

Wang Yuzhou saw that the second prince did not avoid suspicion with him in the court, and was so angry that he wanted to yell at him.

How stupid as a pig!

He raised his eyes and looked at Emperor Zhao.

Sure enough, he saw that Emperor Zhao on the dragon chair was ashen-faced, and his hands were trembling with anger.

He was restrained everywhere by this group of aristocratic families, but now, even his own eldest son is not with him, how can he not be disappointed?
"Say it again?" Emperor Zhao said to Yingzhao word by word with a grim expression on his face.

Yingzhao first saw that his uncle looked at him with a sullen look, and then saw that his father was even more angry. He was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and trembled.

The atmosphere in Chaoyang Palace was tense and fell into a stalemate.

"Report, [-] stones of food and grass have poured into the city!" News came from the soldiers of the Jingzhong City Defense Battalion.

what?
One hundred thousand stone?
Where do you come from?

Emperor Zhao and all the ministers hurriedly raised their heads, looking at the young general who came to pass the news with surprise.

Ying Su was taken aback when he heard this, and didn't understand what was going on.

Everyone knows that this hundred thousand shi of grain is a timely help to Dongying today, even life-saving medicine is not an exaggeration.

At one time, news came from Beisai, urging the Beijing-China grain transport officials to quickly support them, because their food and grass had been exhausted by the enemy.

But this year is a year of famine, how can we make up enough food and grass?
If the food and grass run out, the battle will be lost!
I never thought that a hundred thousand stones of grain would arrive today. Could it be that some Bodhisattva appeared?
"Where did you get it from?" Emperor Zhao asked anxiously with sweaty palms.

The young general Tong Chuan, seeing hundreds of pairs of eyes staring at him in this hall, felt terrified and stuttered, "It was sent from Suzhou, Suzhou Lu. Lu Guogong's mansion!"

Duke Lu's Mansion?

The Prime Minister on the right looked embarrassed, his brows were knit together, and he didn't know what to think.

Emperor Zhao swept away the gloom on his face and said "yes" three times in a row.

One of the staff members of the Right Prime Minister Wang's mansion thought he was smart: "Your Majesty, you can see that the mansion of the Lu State is able to produce this [-] shi of grain. It must be rich as an enemy, and it must be a lot of people's fat in Suzhou City."

"If you are so mean to the common people, why bother to use salt? Isn't it superfluous?" Ying Su's voice was cold, and he poked at the civil servant of the vassal Wang family.

Emperor Zhao's expression was full of anger, and he was about to punish the civil servant, when he heard the young general say again: "Your Majesty, here is another letter."

Jiang Xian put the whisk on his arm, took it from the lower hall, and presented it to Emperor Zhao.

In the letter, Lu Jinyan said hastily: I know about the frontier battles, and now it is a disaster year. The state treasury is empty of food and grass, which will definitely bother your majesty.

Emperor Zhao read the last sentence in his heart, and his voice was choked with sobs: "The country is peaceful and the people are safe? Jinyan is so kind, but you are so thick! Yan! Shameless!"

The officials turned pale and buried the head lower, fearing to provoke the dragon's wrath.

"Come here, call Duke Lu back to Beijing immediately." Emperor Zhao had made up his mind, and no one dared to say anything more.

This day in Beijing, I'm afraid it will change again.

The [-] stones of food and grass actually arrived in Beijing with Ying Su last night.

Although it was transported from Suzhou, it was not from Lu Guogong's mansion, but from Mu Cangzhai.

When Lu Ziyu's second brother went to Beisai to join the army, he began to stockpile a large amount of food, and the hundreds of thousands of shi of food took up half of her life's savings.

She knew that it was not so easy for Duke Lu's mansion to return to the capital, and she hoped that this humiliating case would not make the sage willing to fight against the aristocratic family for Duke Lu's mansion.

To attack, first attack the heart.

So while the Ninth Prince was investigating the case of Yanyin, she decided to send the life-saving food to the Chaoyang Palace.

Even if those aristocratic families tried their best to obstruct him in the palace, they would only be compared with the actions of Duke Lu's mansion.

The so-called strategic planning, decisive victory thousands of miles away.

At this time Lu Ziyu was lying on the soft couch under the tree in Lanyue Pavilion, holding a peony and water chestnut fan and shaking it lightly.

Luo Ning was waiting on the side, sending a smile to his concubine's red lips.

The concubine on the couch seemed to be a beauty, with a sweet smile and joy in her heart, half-closed her silky eyes, enjoying herself extremely lazily.

　The opening chapter of the second chapter: the intricate family, let's see how Miss Lu can break through~
　　I hope that the son's writing style can hold up to the big scene (thanks to the little master who gave the ticket)

　　
　
(End of this chapter)