Red Mansion and Crimson Pearl

Chapter 121 These evil intentions!

Ideological and Political Hall.

Emperor Zhaoming smiled stiffly, staring at Prince Yu, who was standing on the steps with saliva flying, and tilted his head to one side.

Tao Xingjian hurriedly bent down and leaned over to listen.

"Find someone." Emperor Zhaoming smiled and squeezed out these three words from between his teeth.

Tao Xingjian bowed and left.

After a while, he brought the eunuchs outside to bring chairs to the ministers and served them hot tea.

Emperor Zhaoming smiled and held out his hand: "I think the emperor's uncle is not going to let me go today. Then sit down and talk. If you are tired, father will blame me again."

Cao Feng, the official of the Ministry of Personnel standing on the other side of Prince Yu, saw that everyone had a seat, and some of them were only fifth-rank doctors. He almost broke the tablet in his hand and bowed to the ground with a sullen face:

"I am only here because of my rank. I have been in the cabinet for several years, but I have only engaged in verbal disputes and have not achieved any real results. I am ashamed of being a figurehead and cheating the world for fame! I dare not sit in front of the emperor."

These words were spoken with such force and sonority that they almost slapped the faces of the other people standing upwards!

Since Emperor Zhaoming ascended the throne, the arrears of the Ministry of Revenue and the redundancy of the Ministry of Personnel were almost all caused by this person's hard work day and night. If we talk about the achievements of the past few years, this person ranks second, and no one dares to say that he ranks first.

But just for this seat, Cao got so anxious that he even hurled such fatal words at everyone's face, especially Prince Yu's!

Prince Yu's face suddenly turned ugly.

The two who followed his lead hurried forward to smooth things over: "Lord Cao has worked hard these days, His Majesty feels sorry for you, please don't be ungrateful! Please take a seat!"

"Exactly! If you don't sit down, how can we, the younger generation, sit down? Let Prince Yu sit alone at this time. Given his kindness and compassion, he would not bear it!"

Cao Feng did not give his colleagues the slightest bit of respect. He waved his sleeves and groaned in pain, "Oh, whoever has the guts can sit down! Anyway, I don't have the guts to sit down!"

The two men's faces turned blue and red after being scolded by him. They had no choice but to take a half step back with their back teeth gritting and keep silent.

Emperor Zhaoming finally felt a little relieved, and looked at Cao Feng with a sincere smile: "My dear Cao, don't be impatient. Governing a big country is like cooking a small fish, and things will be perfect if you take your time. Let's do it slowly, and we will get it done one day."

Cao Feng was persuaded by the emperor himself, and finally he calmed down and answered with a bow, "Yes."

After a pause, he turned to Prince Yu and continued, "Your Highness said that court officials are divided into different levels. Does that mean the common people should also be divided into different levels?"

"That's right!" Prince Yu raised his chin unhappily.

Cao Feng sneered: "Then what standard should be used to divide them? Who is rich? Who has relatives in the court? Or who is more scoundrel?

"Taxes, laws, and decrees are all the laws of the court. If the emperor breaks the law, he will be punished just like the common people. Should these be divided into different levels?

"Why? In the eyes of the prince, is the emperor not as good as the servants you have to use?"

Prince Yu was furious: "You, you are just spitting blood! Why did I say that?!"

“Three days ago during the morning court session, the censors under the prince’s command impeached Your Majesty for appointing eunuchs to clean up the imperial farm instead of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, saying that this was favoritism.

"What did the prince say at that time? Your Majesty cannot violate the laws of the court. Let your Majesty, the emperor, be punished the same as the common people if he breaks the law!

"What? Today, when we discuss taxes on the nobles, it becomes like we have to divide everyone into different classes? Prince Yu, how can you be so deceiving to the emperor!!"

Cao Feng swung his sleeves and shouted, "You should be thankful! I, Cao, am not a censor now! If I were, I would impeach you every day of the year, 365 days a year!"

Emperor Zhaoming suppressed the smile on his lips, leaned back, sat deep in the throne, and watched the show with great pleasure.

Ah, it feels so great to have someone help me curse!

This Cao Feng is indeed a brave general that I promoted myself! Hmm, it seems that he has a younger brother, who is even more vicious than him? I'll check later, where does that kid work?

Emperor Zhaoming was distracted when Lu Changqing suddenly rushed in from outside the door, ran straight up the imperial steps, and whispered in his ear: "Empress Jia has called her third daughter and Jia Baoyu into the palace, and is discussing the cause and effect of Wang's death."

Emperor Zhaoming frowned, stepped aside three inches, and asked loudly: "What did you say? The queen is not feeling well?"

"That's right. I heard that he was feeling very dizzy, and he was not eating well these past two days, and he was retching frequently. The Imperial Hospital has already sent him there." Lu Changqing put his hands at his sides, talking nonsense loudly without changing his expression.

Emperor Zhaoming sighed and slapped his thigh, "My dear ministers, it is true that the queen is not feeling well, and I have to go and see her myself.

"It will take a while to come to a conclusion on this matter, so each of you should go back and write a charter and submit it to me. I will take a look at them and pick out a few that I agree with, and then we can discuss it publicly."

As he said this, he walked downstairs.

Since the matter involved the Empress and it seemed to be a sign of pregnancy, no one dared to delay the Emperor at this moment and they could only bow their heads in resentment.

When Emperor Zhaoming passed by Cao Feng, he paused and scolded him, "You are the only one with a loud voice and so much to say! Write down all your little ideas for me! If you have less than 3,000 words, I will take your head!"

Three thousand words?!

Isn't this the same as asking myself to draft all the rules and regulations! ?

Cao Feng was immediately filled with joy and delight. He held up his tablet to hide his smiling face and bowed deeply: "I obey your order!"

Emperor Zhaoming strode out of the hall.

Tao Xingjian gave a wink and Lu Changqing trotted after him.

Tao Xingjian also frowned, took a half step forward, and called Cao Feng: "Master Cao, you still owe Concubine Lai two longevity characters to write! Don't leave yet, write them in this hall!"

Write a longevity word for the concubine?

Or is it Concubine Lai who was born as a slave?

This flattery is so despicable!

Prince Yu and the others looked at each other, sneered a few times, and walked away talking and laughing.

After everyone had left, Tao Xingjian smiled and asked Cao Feng to go to the side hall: "His Majesty loves your calligraphy very much, but he is embarrassed to ask for it. That's why I asked the Queen Mother to give it to him. Don't mind it. His Majesty is shy. As his subjects, we should bear the responsibility."

This is the emperor asking his trusted eunuchs to express their love and respect for him!

Cao Feng was so excited that he knelt down on both knees in the direction of the throne and said, "I will never be able to repay your majesty for your kindness!"

Seeing how smart he was, Tao Xingjian helped him up with a smile on his face: "Master Cao, please."

"Please come in, Mr. Tao!" Cao Feng immediately became close to Tao Xingjian.

On the other side, Emperor Zhaoming turned the corner of the palace and saw Lu Changqing had already prepared his horse there. He could not help but look back at him and laughed and scolded: "What a thief!"

He jumped on the horse and galloped all the way from the palace alley to Fengzao Palace!

Inside Fengzao Palace.

In the end, Yuanchun left Tanchun at the scene and listened to Baoyu's stammering recounting of what happened in the Lin Mansion from beginning to end, her face gradually becoming gloomier.

Tanchun looked normal.

Baoyu looked up at her and asked expectantly, "Does Third Sister know everything?"

Tanchun looked outside indifferently and said coldly, "Not only do I know this, but I also know that my father has known these things for a long time.

"It started with my aunt, then Sister Lin drove away the fire-making girl, then to the nightmare of my second brother and Sister Feng, and even the death of Qin.

"Father knew it a long time ago. Not only did he know it, he also told my aunt. He also asked my aunt not to stand in the way of Madam.

"My father never thought of asking his wife to stop! He even wished someone would do all these sins for him!"