Empress: Your Majesty, please respect yourself, I don't want to be promoted

Chapter 35

Complaints aside, Lu Chen actually didn't have much of a problem with the empress's arrangement.

Anyway, it's not bad for him. It's good to have access to more official documents, which will be more conducive to his dismissal plan.

After all, if you do too much, you will make many mistakes.

The Engineering Department where he currently works is, as the name suggests, the section officer responsible for the affairs of the Ministry of Industry, which has the least presence among the six departments.

Now that the empress has just taken charge of the government, the Ministry of Industry has not taken any action yet, so there is no chance to implement his plan to ascend to immortality for the time being.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been so absent-minded these past two days.

But the staff department is different.

For such a key department, the government affairs involved must be complicated, and it is very likely that there are hidden chains of interests one after another.

After all, Tianguan of the Ministry of Personnel is not just a verbal title.

Therefore, there must be a lot of trouble among the officials!

Hard work means trouble, even a big hole that even the emperor is unwilling to touch.

And trouble and all, for him now, it is simply what he wants!

So, after sending the eunuch away pretending to be grateful and determined to repay his kindness, Lu Chen casually picked up an official document and prepared to see if there was any chance of causing trouble.

But at this moment-

"Congratulations, Mr. Lu!"

The engineers from the same court room and three other engineering majors all stood up at the same time and came to Lu Chen's desk. Then they raised their hands and complimented Lu Chen with a flattering expression.

"In order for Mr. Lu to be able to take over the three pavilions as soon as possible, and to be the leader of all officials, Your Majesty did not hesitate to break the rules for Mr. Lu. Such painstaking efforts show how much your Majesty attaches great importance to Mr. Lu!"

"Master Lu is a scholar of heaven and earth, and he has your majesty's trust. In the future, he will definitely be able to help your majesty create a prosperous world and be famous for eternity!"

"I also hope that Mr. Lu will never forget the friendship between my colleagues and me, and support us as much as possible after his rise to prominence."

"Mr. Lu, do you still remember? When you first joined the engineering department, your subordinates treated you to dinner~"

"The admiration I have for you, Mr. Lu, is like the endless flow of a surging river! It is also like the overflowing of the Yellow River, which is out of control!"

"..."

Hearing the flattery, Lu Chen, who only wanted to be dismissed from office, not only did not feel the slightest joy, but as if someone had sprinkled salt on the wound, his anger rose up and spread throughout his body in just a moment.

God is a scholar and heavenly being!I have only been in the court for more than a month. I have never done anything serious, and I am not even a Jinshi. How can I be such a pedantic person? !

Resign?I am at the same level as you, okay?

The roaring river?Are you the funny guy invited by Master Xing?

Snapped!

Lu Chen threw away the official document in his hand, and then slapped the table hard.

A crisp loud noise instantly sounded in the engineering corridor room.

"You guys are very idle, aren't you?!"

The cold words instantly made the faces of the people around who were desperately blowing rainbow farts freeze.

Lu Chen said coldly: "Thunder, rain and dew are all your kindness. No matter what your Majesty does, whether it is reward or punishment, it is a kindness that we and other ministers will never be able to repay in this life! I should be honorable and disgraceful as I serve you." , take it calmly, do not become proud and complacent because of your majesty’s appreciation, and do not feel resentful because of your majesty’s punishment!”

"As long as His Majesty does not remove us from our official positions, we must devote all our energy to the official duties entrusted to us by Your Majesty. Otherwise, it will be slacking off! It will be dereliction of duty!!"

Hearing this increasingly severe reprimand, everyone couldn't help but break into a cold sweat.

Their flattery is all about the horse's legs...

At the same time, I also felt that Lu Chen was mentally ill?Otherwise, how could it be so different?

They fawn over just to make a good sale. Even if they don't help in the future, at least they won't cause trouble for them. They are somewhat concerned about the friendship they once had from a public house.

But forget it if you don’t accept it. The worst thing is that we just don’t mess with each other in the future. There’s no need to rebuke them with such fierce words, right?

Look at your red face and thick neck, it's as if this vast country is your home, and the world's surname is Lu rather than Jiang.

is it necessary?

For a moment, everyone who reacted felt uneasy and a little resentful in their hearts. They even looked at Lu Chen with an imperceptible anger and resentment in their eyes.

Lu Chen was too lazy to pay attention to them. After scolding him, he buried his head and continued to read the official documents.

For those official documents that have basically no use value, just agree to them all without bothering to waste time on them.

However, it was also due to the fact that the Empress was in charge of the dynasty for the first time. Although there were many official documents from the Ministry of Personnel and they were large in magnitude, most of them were quite satisfactory and of little value to him, so he reviewed them very quickly, and he reviewed most of them in less than half a day.

Until he was almost impatient, thinking that today would still be the same as before and he would get nothing...

"Ok?"

Holding an ordinary official document, he was suddenly startled.

Then, with some inexplicable surprise, he once again focused his eyes on the content in front of him that had been marked "accurate" by the empress's ink pen, and at the same time, he silently recited it unconsciously.

"After investigation, Yongchuan County Magistrate Xia Yan has a close relationship with the Demon Queen's family, and the account books found in the rebellious minister Zhou Yong's mansion also contain records of bribery. The amount of bribes is as high as more than 20 yuan! Now Xia Yan's family has been wiped out After being arrested, he will be escorted to the capital in a few days. Cao Siming, the right minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, boldly requested an order to have him punished in the canon, so as to eliminate the corruption left by the Demon Queen's chaotic government and restore peace to the world!"

Putting down the official document, Lu Chen began to think about it.

As a native of Yongchuan, I am naturally no stranger to my former parents.

After all, the last step to join the sect and become a cultivator is to obtain the relevant documents issued by the local county government, and basically the county magistrate in every place will personally organize a farewell party every year to prepare for each session of the sect. The cultivators saw him off.

The predecessor's impression of Xia Yan was actually not very good.

In the memory of his predecessor, among the twelve cultivators of his generation, there was a high-ranking disciple from the capital. Xia Yan specially raised the standard of the banquet. There were many delicacies on the table, which was enough for the high-ranking disciple. Face can even be said to be extremely flattering.

The dignified seventh-grade county magistrate was so flattering to a cultivator. Even though the county was not wealthy, he used so much money to please a young man.

Therefore, the upright predecessor looked down upon Xia Yan.

But no matter what, Xia Yan entertained him in a serious manner, and he didn't get stuck on his paperwork, which was the worst at the time. He didn't embarrass him because of his background. Instead, he went out of his way to encourage him at the end. .

Therefore, he never said anything bad about Xia Yan. When others mentioned it, he would just say a few good words for him and then end the topic in a hurry.

After he was admitted to Jinshi, he didn't write a letter to Xia Yan, as if he had never met him before.

But now, the official from his hometown who once had some kindness to him is in jail, and the evidence is conclusive, and there is basically no possibility of overturning the case.

There seems to be some room for maneuver in this matter...

Anyway, after becoming an immortal, you can do whatever you want, and at worst, you will have to sort it out...

Chapter 36

The white world, snow, is the only melody.

For the Cangwu Icefield, which is located in the northwest of the Great Xia Empire and is also the northwest boundary of Central Continent, it is a world of snow.

The Cangwu Icefield is extremely vast, but since most of the area is covered with heavy snow all year round, there are very few areas suitable for human habitation. Except for some [God-given soil] that has changed its position every once in a while since ancient times, There are only some areas where frozen soil has not frozen for unknown reasons.

In the long course of history, those God-given soils that periodically changed their positions gave birth to nomadic civilizations that were completely different from the farming civilization of the Central Plains Dynasty.

For example, the Turkic Khanate now has millions of string masters.

The Turkic kings of the past dynasties, or the kings of the heaven-given land, all looked covetously at the Central Plains Dynasty. As long as there was a slight chance, they would almost certainly send troops to the east, just to occupy the extremely rich land of the Central Plains Dynasty.

If the occupation failed, they would instead plunder, snatching the population, food, natural materials, treasures and other resources of the Central Plains back to the God-given land, so as to accumulate resources for the next troop dispatch.

The Central Plains Dynasty even had a record of being wiped out by aliens from the heavenly soil.

It was an extremely dark time.

Thousands of miles of land and mountains fell, and the Xuanyan nation was reduced to a two-legged sheep. They struggled to death under the cruel grins and heavy iron hooves of the aliens, and were almost wiped out.

Therefore, facing the huge threat from the northwest, every Central Plains dynasty would deploy heavy troops in the military towns established in the frozen soil zone to block the threat from the Central Plains.

The same is true for Daxia.

After the founding of the country, Taizu Taizu of Great Xia established the unfrozen land as a wilderness state, and at the same time forcibly moved millions of people there. He then ordered a great general of the Zhu Kingdom, who had great military exploits at that time, to unite the army to guard the wasteland state and take charge of the military and political power of the wilderness state. Except for the emperor, Other than that, it is not controlled by anyone.

Then, it became the ancestral system for Shangzhu, who had only eight people in the empire, to guard Huangzhou.

Nearly a thousand years have passed, and now, as the largest and most desolate barren state in the Daxia administrative region, Motian City still lacks the most basic feature of a heaven-level city - prosperity. On the contrary, the population here is not as good as that of a Xuan-level city. city.

Ice and snow hinder the steps of serious businessmen who are not afraid of hardships. After all, no one is willing to travel thousands of miles to such a place with basically no commercial value.

Moreover, the land in Huangzhou is extremely barren. It is difficult to grow ordinary food, let alone spiritual food. The annual food output is very low. The only way to earn money is through hunting or fishing, otherwise it will not be able to feed many people at all.

Although the imperial court transported food, the journey was long, consumed a lot of manpower and material resources, and the cost was extremely high, which was a great test of national strength; secondly, the road was not peaceful, with monsters, monsters, aliens, and bandits running rampant. Even if there was an army escort, There is no guarantee that anything will go wrong.

There is also the threat of foreign races here, so it is not very attractive to the people. Unless it is absolutely necessary, no people will be willing to move to such a ghost place to settle down.

At the same time, because it is located in the northwest corner of Central Continent, and is only separated from the world of swords and magic in Western Continent by a sea, there are some areas in the Blue Mist Icefield that are not suitable for human habitation, but they are inhabited by dwarves, orcs, trolls, and even dragons. A paradise for many non-human races.

Therefore, the living environment here can be described as extremely harsh.

It is simply a world where the strong are respected.

At this time, inside Motian City.

In the silent streets, there are only the whistling sounds of the cold wind and the sound of scattered footsteps.

Even in the coldest month of winter, there are still some pedestrians on the street, but there is no joy and laughter in the human world on their faces. Instead, there is only indifference and indifference in the face of an unknown fate.

Originally, their life was fairly decent, but since the Queen Mother came into power, less and less supplies have been shipped to Huangzhou.

Supplies are running low, and priority must be given to supplying the army. Naturally, the lives of the people are becoming more and more difficult.

Without enough food, they had to take greater risks and hunt and fish more.

Fight with the sky, fight with the earth, fight with people, and fight with beasts.

If you win the fight, you will lie down for a few days; if you lose the fight, you will lie down for a lifetime.

In this city where hope is increasingly lost, the despair of the people has gradually become the mainstream. No one knows that one day they will encounter a powerful monster while hunting, or they will not be able to find the prey and they will run out of energy and freeze to death in the ice field. Go up and become the meal of a certain monster.

Maybe it's a giant ice bear, maybe it's a saber-toothed tiger, and if you're lucky, it can turn into a pile of dragon dung. With such a fate, who knows which one it will be?

The highest point of Motian City is the watchtower of the City Lord's Mansion. From here, you can see a complete white city.

Gu Simiao, who was wearing light armor, had her hands clasped behind her hands and stared into the distance. Under her silver-white hair, which she had practiced unknown techniques, there was an inexplicable trace of determination in her cold and solemn eyes.

She was once known as the most beautiful woman in Northern Hebei Province. Although she has been in the army for two years, she is still as beautiful as she was two years ago. She is even a little more heroic than two years ago. It's just that she has , there is always a cold air that repels people from thousands of miles away, making people instinctively afraid to approach.