The Most Powerful Man in the World

Chu Yi laughed loudly, and looked at Zhao Gou, who was sitting there, and said politely: "Speaking of this, I still have to ask Your Majesty's permission, even if I don't mention it today, Chu will have to ask His Majesty for him in the morning. Please."

Zhao Gou, who was stunned for a moment, looked at Chu Yi, and said curiously, "Oh, I don't know what King Song wants to do? I will allow it."

Chu Yi said solemnly, "Chu asks His Majesty's permission to build an altar outside the city. When Chu ascends, he will make sacrifices to the heavens. Only in this way can one person attain the effect of a chicken and a dog ascending to the sky."

Hearing what Chu Yi said, Tong Guan and Hu Yanzhuo were all surprised, while Zhao Gou secretly felt a little joy in his heart, and said to Chu Yi without hesitation: "So what King Song mentioned is just such a trivial matter. Ah, this matter is easy, I will be sure."

Chu Yi nodded and said, "Thank you so much, Your Majesty."

Huyanzhuo's eyes widened and said, "So, can you really bring people to fly with you, Chief Executive?"

Huyanzhuo, who was still skeptical, looked at what kind of altar Chu Yi was going to build, with a certain attitude, which made Huyanzhuo feel a little uncertain in his heart.

Chu Yi smiled and said, "Yes or no, we will know everything when the altar is built."

After speaking, Chu Yi looked at Huyanzhuo and said, "Could it be that General Huyan is also planning to take off with Chu Mou, but if this is the case, General Huyan will say..."

Huyanzhuo hurriedly shook his head and said, "The last general is just curious and has no other intentions."

His Huyan family has been loyal to the Song Dynasty for generations, and his Huyanzhuo is regarded as a confidant by the emperor Zhao Gou. With his heart, how could he be willing to abandon the family and leave everything to fly away with Chu Yi.

Great meeting

Under normal circumstances, the Great Court will be held once every half a month or so, and every time the Great Court will be held, officials above the sixth rank must be present if they are in the capital.

Moreover, the Great Court is generally a place to discuss important matters, but this time the Great Court was held ahead of schedule, all because of the return of Chu Yi and his party from the westward expedition.

When the crowd of civil and military officials looked at the more than [-] figures above the court, they were all shocked. These figures were all Chu Yi's confidants. They had followed Chu Yi to the west, but now they appear. Above the court, it means that the rumors they heard about the return of Chu Yi and others were not rumors.

Just when all the civil and military people were guessing in their hearts, the sharp voice of the internal servant sounded outside the hall: "The commander-in-chief of the army and horses of the world, Song Wang Chuyi is here."

Everyone looked towards the entrance of the main hall, and saw Chu Yi, who was dressed in full clothes, walking slowly. Although Chu Yi had restrained his aura, but the name and tree shadow, even if Chu Yi did not show the slightest power, it was to let one person down. When Chu Yi appeared, the officials naturally felt a lot of pressure in their hearts.

Just at the first place under the throne, a seat has been prepared early. Looking at the position of the seat, it is almost in line with the throne. It can be seen how powerful it is to be able to sit in this position.

Chu Yi came over, and all the officials bowed to Chu Yi and said, "I will wait to see His Royal Highness King Song."

This is at the great court meeting. Apart from meeting the emperor, the civil and military people do not need to pay homage to anyone at all, but Chu Yi is an exception.

Chu Yi waved his hand slightly, then turned around and sat down on the seat. Until this time, the crowd of civil and military officials were a little relieved.

Just before Chu Yi sat down for a while, the incomparably sharp voice of the servant sounded again outside the main hall: "Your Majesty is here!"

Zhao Gou's figure appeared at the entrance of the main hall, and he walked over under the service of the great eunuch Tong Guan. When he saw Chu Yi's figure, Zhao Gou nodded slightly towards Chu Yi.

When Zhao Gou turned around and sat on the dragon chair, Tong Guan, who was shaking the dust in his hand, said loudly, "Bye!"

Immediately, a group of civil and military people bowed to Zhao Gou, but Chu Yi, who was sitting there, didn't get up, but slightly cupped his hands towards Zhao Gou.

Zhao Gou waved his sleeves and said solemnly, "All the ministers are exempt from the ceremony and flattened!"

When the civil and military officials returned to their positions, Zhao Gou swept his eyes over the crowd and said, "Is there anything the ministers have to announce?"

Everyone, look at me, I'll look at you, because the Song Dynasty has been expanding externally, redundant officials and redundant government were one of the biggest drawbacks of the Song Dynasty, but now this situation is long gone.

A large number of officials have been sent out, and there is even an extreme shortage of officials, which makes the staffing of officials a lot more nervous. Normally, a department may have [-] or [-] officials responsible for it, but now it has been transferred repeatedly. It would be good if one-third of the officials in a department were left.

The number of personnel has been greatly reduced, but the things that should be done have not been reduced at all. In this way, the ability of an official is suddenly highlighted.

After all, with the reduction in the number of people, it is almost a pit of radishes. There is no object of shirk. What is tested is the ability of an official.

Under such circumstances, because of the numerous officials who shied away from each other, the phenomenon that a large number of government affairs were delayed for ten days and a half months disappeared all at once.

Although I dare not say that everything can be solved at once, the accumulation of a large number of government affairs has almost disappeared.

It's only been three days since the last great meeting, and all the things that should be dealt with have been dealt with not long ago. This time the great meeting itself is very sudden. It can be said that it was held temporarily because of the return of Chu Yi and others. Many officials are even less prepared, and naturally there is no urgent government affairs that need to be brought here to discuss and make decisions.

But at this moment, a figure stood up, and when a group of civil and military people saw that figure, even if they were thinking about whether the government affairs in their hands should be taken out for discussion, they all suppressed the thoughts in their hearts.

As one of Chu Yi's representatives in the court, Lu Shinang stood up now, as long as he was not a fool, he knew that Lu Shinang spoke at this time, no matter what it was, it must represent Chu Yi's meaning.

A group of people stared at Lu Shinang, obviously very curious as to why Chu Yi and his party suddenly returned from the west.

Lu Shinang naturally ignored the curious eyes of these officials, took a deep breath, bowed to Zhao Gou, and then bowed to Chu Yi, and then solemnly took out the memorial from his sleeve and presented it, "Report to Your Majesty. , the minister has the original performance."

His own servant came forward and respectfully took the memorial and forwarded it to Tong Guan, who then presented it to Zhao Gou.

Zhao Gou glanced at the memorial, nodded slightly and said, "Lu Aiqing doesn't know what's going on, so it's just the memorial."

Lu Shinang said slowly: "I urge Your Majesty to decree that the various ministries of the imperial court can repair an altar with a height of ninety-nine feet outside the city!"

Zhao Gou had just glanced at the memorial, and naturally he had some understanding of the contents of the memorial. Besides, when he went to the Humble Garden yesterday, Chu Yi had already mentioned it to him. The content of the memorial is not surprising.

It can be said that this is just a passing scene at the recent court meeting based on what happened yesterday, and it can also be regarded as an explanation for the officials.

After all, repairing a large altar with a height of nearly [-] zhang is by no means a trivial matter. If it is repaired quietly, there will definitely be many officials who will come to the court at that time. In this case, it is better to go directly above the court. By clarifying the matter, at the same time, the altar can be repaired at the fastest speed with the help of the power of the imperial court.

Zhang Shuye, Li Gang, and the others, who were standing in the crowd of civil and military officials, were blank at this moment. Obviously, they had not been informed in advance.

Especially Zhang Shuye, who is now in charge of the Ministry of Households, stood up first and said to Master Lu: "Master Lu, this official also asks, why is this altar repaired, how big is the scale, and how much does it cost?"

Glancing at Zhang Shuye lightly, Lu Shinang said calmly: "The radius is nine miles, and the height is ninety-nine feet. If you talk about the cost, it will cost millions of dollars."

Zhang Shuye couldn't help but raise his brows, even though he said that millions of silver coins were nothing to the Song Dynasty, especially now that the Song Dynasty had a vast territory and a lot of taxes, and it was only the taxes collected in a year. It's in the billions.

But with a lot of income, a lot of expenses are also spent. Therefore, as the big housekeeper of the imperial household, who does not know how difficult it is to get money from Zhang Shuye? Now Lu Shinang opens his mouth. To spend millions of dollars to repair an altar whose purpose is unclear, it is normal for Zhang Shuye to stand up immediately.

Hearing what Lu Shinang said, Zhang Shuye almost instinctively wanted to object, but at this moment, Zhao Gou suddenly interrupted Zhang Shuye's words: "Zhang Aiqing, this matter is approved, love You can pay the money according to your needs, sir."

After speaking, Zhao Gou looked at the Minister of Works and said, "The Ministry of Works is the main work for repairing the altar, and the six divisions are supplemented. We must repair the altar as quickly as possible."

At this moment, even a fool has reacted. Obviously, this altar must be inseparable from Chu Yi, otherwise Zhao Gou would never have such an attitude.

Zhang Shuye took a deep breath and respectfully ordered to return to the courtiers.

The matter of repairing the altar was settled in this way, and the next few ministers seemed to be trying to avoid the Great Court meeting being too deserted, so they tried their best to find a few political matters to discuss.

The great court will disperse, and with the mouths of a group of civil and military officials, the news that the court will build a large altar as high as [-] zhang for the chief general Chu Yi outside the capital spread like wings.

In less than half a day, almost everyone in the capital knew the news.

"Hey, isn't the chief executive on an expedition to the Western Regions, why did he suddenly return to Beijing quietly?"

"Why did the chief administrator suddenly want to repair a large altar? It's not because today's son wants to sacrifice to the heavens and let the emperor be the chief administrator."

"Then there's no need to say it, otherwise, why do you have to repair such a large altar if you don't go to sacrifice to the sky? If you want me to say, this time the Zhao family's country is going to change hands."

Of course, these are just all kinds of gossip and rumors circulating privately by ignorant people in the market.

For those really smart people, many people have even guessed that Chu Yi's intention to repair the altar must be related to the rumor about Chu Yi's ascension that was circulated in the capital not long ago.

More than one conscientious person said to his confidant: "The altar must be related to the secret of King Song Feisheng. Immediately send someone to me to stare at the altar that is about to be repaired."

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The secret of Chu Yi's soaring ascension is not a secret at all from some people in the capital, not to mention that Chu Yi has no intention of keeping it a secret.

But in the eyes of some people, Chu Yi's so-called soaring ascension is simply a joke. Perhaps they admit that Chu Yi's cultivation base can definitely be regarded as rare in the world, but a strong cultivation base does not mean that you can soar.

You must know that even if they exist like immortals in the legends of the world, the ancestors of Chen Tuan still have not been able to soar, let alone such a latecomer as Chu Yi.

So with such a comparison, it's normal for these people to not be able to soar, but it's normal for Chu Yi to soar, but everything has a contingency, isn't it?

It is true that Chu Yi has shown great qualities since he appeared in front of the world, and even just looking at the achievements of Chu Yi himself, looking at the past and present, it is really rare that anyone can match it.

It is precisely because of this that even if Chu Yi cannot fully believe what Chu Yi said, he cannot completely deny it.

Moreover, Chu Yi's ascension did not fly away alone, but with a group of subordinates, which made those who were not optimistic about Chu Yi a little hesitant.

This time, the news that Chu Yi was going to repair a huge altar suddenly came out from the hall. Even a fool could realize that this altar must have something to do with Chu Yi's ascension.

Regardless of whether Chu Yi paid attention to it or not, a considerable number of people's attention was on Chu Yi.

To be precise, it was eyeing the huge altar that was about to be repaired.

With Da Song's current strength, if he were to do one thing with his heart, the power that he could burst out was absolutely astonishing.

Moreover, this matter is also related to the existence of Chu Yi, who can be called the number one person in the world, so on the day the Great Court disperses, the Ministry of Work, which was appointed by the Son of Heaven to be in charge of this matter, has already started to get busy.

The entire Ministry of Works almost put down most of the things in their hands, and put all their energy on this matter, and a famous craftsman was recruited.

Occupying an area of ​​several kilometers, the [-]-zhang-high altar cannot be repaired in an hour and a half, and a lot of material and manpower must be used.

However, these are not big issues for the imperial court. Whether it is human or material resources, if there is a need, the Six Divisions will naturally cooperate fully.

Even the Ministry of War directly dispatched tens of thousands of troops to be responsible for repairing the altar.

About a dozen miles outside the capital, after some investigation, the location of the large altar was selected, and a large number of soldiers began to enter the venue with various tools to make various basic preparations.

In just a few short days, in the eyes of some spies who were sent to pay attention to the repair of this altar into the city, the speed of repair of this altar was definitely the fastest they had ever seen in their lives, and it could almost be said that it looked the same every day.

It was only a few days. The foundation of an altar with a height of more than ten meters has already been raised. As the foundation is laid, the next speed will naturally become faster and faster.

If it continues at this speed, it may take less than half a month depending on the situation, and an altar as high as [-] feet can appear in front of the world.

The altar as high as [-] zhang can be regarded as a hill in a radius of several kilometers. If it is a heavenly person to go out in person, it will take a lot of effort, let alone a group of ordinary people.

Many people are very strange. It is said that if Chu Yi is willing, he can dispatch a few strong men from heaven to build the altar. If the strong men from heaven and man personally do it, I believe that in a few days at most, the altar can be easily Construction was successful.

Just like in order to repair the avenues to the sky, Chu Yi just used it as a coolie to build roads instead of using the heavens and the people.

To say that Chu Yi couldn't think of using a strong man from heaven to build the altar, I'm afraid no one would believe it. Since this is the case, then Chu Yi must have a purpose for not recruiting strong men from heaven and man.

Time flies by like a stream of water.

In the imperial garden that day, Zhao Gouzheng was accompanied by Tong Guan to enjoy the flowers in the imperial garden.

Looking up and looking into the distance, you can clearly see an incomparably tall altar appearing in the line of sight.

You must know that this altar is as high as [-] zhang, and the location of the altar is not far outside the city. After such an altar was repaired, almost everyone in the entire capital looked up and looked in the direction of the altar outside the city. Altar figure.

At this moment, Zhao Gou looked at the incomparably tall altar, with a somewhat complicated expression on his face, and exhaled: "Tong Guan, if there is nothing wrong with the memorial presented by the Ministry of Industry, this altar will last three days. It can be done within.”

Tong Guan heard the words first glanced at the incomparably tall altar, nodded slightly and said, "Your Majesty remembers correctly, now the altar as a whole has been completed, and the follow-up repairs are also in progress at the fastest speed. Get it all done in a few days."

Zhao Gou nodded and said, "Yes, the altar will be handed over to King Song in a few days. When do you think King Song will ascend, can he really ascend successfully?"

To be honest, if there are people in this world who hope that Chu Yi can ascend smoothly, then Zhao Gou and the royal family of Song Dynasty are definitely the most hopeful.

Although Chu Yi has shown by his actual actions that he has no interest in Song Jiangshan at all, one thing is undeniable, that is, if Chu Yi is in one day, then this Song Jiangshan belongs to the Ming Dynasty. They belonged to the Zhao family, but secretly it was decided by Chu Yi.

As long as Chu Yi is willing, he can even easily change the dynasty. In this case, Zhao Gou, the emperor, is afraid that he would dream of getting rid of such a nightmare as Chu Yi.

Now that Chu Yi is about to soar, it is strange that Zhao Gou is not excited.

Tong Guan can't understand Zhao Gou's thoughts any more, but as a strong man, Tong Guan doesn't have to blindly cater to Zhao Gou, but he tells the truth: "Returning to Your Majesty is a matter of the government's ascension. dare not speak."