Urban Sims

Chapter 822 Returning the Mission

On May 6th.

Zhou Ming's 20th birthday celebration ceremony started grandly.

On this day, the whole world celebrates with great excitement, singing and dancing, and the whole country carnival.

Zhou Ming, who was dressed in a gorgeous dress, also sat in the middle of the etiquette hall, accepting the gifts presented to him by the ministers and nobles.

When each official presents a gift, the etiquette officer will announce it loudly.

"Prime Minister Orusconi, I present Your Majesty with ten gold stones, ten boxes of jewels, hundreds of rare treasures, and ten peerless beauties. I wish Your Majesty a long and prosperous life, and forever shine on the empire!"

"Lord Uncle Rupert, I will present Your Majesty with ten gold stones, ten boxes of rare treasures, ten pieces of rare gems, and ten royal beauties. May Your Majesty live forever and the empire prosper!"

"The chief cabinet minister, Mr. Hagos, presents His Majesty with nine gold and silver stones, nine boxes of jewels, fifty treasures, and ten beauties. I wish His Majesty a heroic, healthy and prosperous empire!"

"Master Weilong Pound, the second cabinet minister, presents your majesty XXXX, XXXX, XXXX, ten beauties, and wish your majesty XXXX..."

"..."

Zhou Ming, who was sitting on the main seat, became more and more irritable when he heard these announcements.

beauty, beauty...

Every minister or nobleman gave a so-called "beauty" among the gifts!
The one with the largest number will give away ten.

The one who gave the least was also given at least two... which means that good things come in pairs.

The most unscrupulous thing is that some ministers use methods such as backdoors, entrusting connections, and bribes with large sums of money to make those well-dressed and enchanting beauties walk through the hall of etiquette and wander around under Zhou Ming's nose.

Among them are talent shows, some from other countries, twin sisters, triplet sisters, and extremely rare quadruplet sisters.

Anyway, there are all kinds of beauties!

In half an hour, at least three or four hundred beauties passed Zhou Ming's eyes.

If it weren't for the fact that today is a special day and it is not easy to have a seizure, he might have to curse on the spot!

Even those who behave excessively will be severely punished!
But he endured it and didn't have an attack.

When the gift-giving ceremony came to an end and Zhou Ming became extremely impatient, the etiquette officer, who had been singing loudly, suddenly got stuck and stopped reading the gift list in his hand.

"Why don't you read it?" Zhou Ming asked.

"Your Majesty, the gift from this nobleman is of low value. It is extremely rude to Your Majesty, and I dare not read it." The ceremonial officer bowed his head and said.

"Read!" Zhou Ming said.

"It's Your Majesty... Lord Elsa, head of the Lucis family, presents His Majesty with 100 boxes of high-grade iron ore, 100 boxes of high-grade sulfur flint (raw material for making gunpowder), and 100 boxes of light purple wood (material for shipbuilding)... …Your Majesty, these things are ordinary things, and the combined value is not as good as a gem gifted by other adults. Your Majesty, Lord Elsa of the Lucis family, this is contempt for the imperial prestige, and this is an insult to Your Majesty! "

The ceremonial officer knelt down and said in great panic: "Your Majesty, the Lucis family is so provocative, please punish them with death!"

"Prince Elsa didn't present a beauty?" Zhou Ming asked.

"No! There are beauties on the other gift lists, but there are no beauties on this list! Your Majesty, a capital offense, this is a capital offense!"

"Hahaha~"

Zhou Ming laughed suddenly, clapped his hands and said: "The things that Lord Elsa sent are all what I really need, and they are exactly what I want! What is the crime of Lord Elsa?"

The hostess was dumbfounded.

This is obviously an unforgivable death crime that insults His Majesty, yet His Majesty the Emperor is actually very satisfied?
His Majesty is actually very happy with a gift of such low actual value?

He didn't quite understand what was going on in the mind of a god like His Majesty.

……

After the grand and joyful birthday celebration.

6 month 8 number.

The next day's court came up early.

Facing all the ministers and officials, Zhou Ming lashed out, scolding all the officials in the palace bloody!

"Ten stones of gold and ten boxes of treasures at every turn! I have reiterated many times that this birthday celebration should be handled frugally and gifts should be given lightly. It's good for you. Treasures worth more than one million gold tower shields are like comparing each other. Give them desperately. Completely forget that these are all the anointing of the people from the lower classes, you don't want to improve their treatment, you don't want to improve their living standards, you just want to please me, how can this be reasonable?"

"There are also those beauties from all over the world. I asked someone to count them. There are as many as 1 people, which is shocking! How did these beauties come here? They were bought with money? They were kidnapped or kidnapped? Or did they use other means? Made it here? I don’t know, and I don’t want to ask about the specific process. I only know that for this birthday celebration, at least 1 families were broken up, and more than 1 women left their parents and faced an unknown fate. !"

"What may be brewed in the end may be tens of thousands of human tragedies!"

"I don't want any of these things, including gold, silver, jewelry, rare treasures, and all the beauties, and I will let people return them all!"

"In the future, I will not allow people to hold activities like birthday celebrations, lest they cause countless human tragedies."

Zhou Ming's statement caused an uproar and wailing in the hall.

"Your Majesty, this is all our heart!"

"Your Majesty, we did not use Min Zhi Min Ointment, the money was earned through foreign trade!"

"Your Majesty, the ten beauties I sent to His Majesty were all willing to enter the palace. Their parents also supported them very much. They did not cause family breakdown or human tragedy!"

"Your Majesty, if you are not satisfied, we will definitely improve in the future. You said that you will not even hold birthday celebrations in the future. How will your subjects show their love and respect for you in the future? The people need to use this way to express Their happiness and loyalty, this kind of celebration, absolutely cannot be cancelled!"

The officials knelt together, desperately dissuading and explaining.

"enough!"

Zhou Ming waved his hand: "Anyway, I will send people to return all the treasures and beauties you gave this time. As for whether the birthday celebration will be held after the birthday celebration, I will replace it with other celebration methods according to the actual situation. In short, yesterday I will completely abandon that form of celebration!"

Zhou Ming said again: "In addition, among the hundreds of ministers and nobles in this palace, there is one person that I want to give special praise to!"

"I will accept all the gifts she gave and express my gratitude. I am very satisfied with her gifts!"

"She is Prince Elsa who just returned to the imperial capital, I hope everyone can learn from her!"

Zhou Ming pointed to the aristocratic area on the right, standing in the corner of the last row, said Elsa, who could hardly be seen by others.

Brush brush!
All eyes in the hall were focused on Elsa!

Then there was an uproar and discussions.

"What? Your Majesty praised Duke Elsa and accepted her gift?"

"Lord Elsa, who sent two piles of stones and one pile of wood to His Majesty, was not punished?"

"I knew about that incident yesterday. I thought the Lucis family would be dead this time! Unexpectedly, we were the ones who were scolded, but she was the one who was praised!"

"I don't accept it. How much energy did I spend preparing for the gift? How many connections did I entrust? The result is not as good as the two piles of stones and a pile of wood sent by others!"

"Hey! Last night, I was discussing with several nobles to jointly request His Majesty to destroy the extremely rude Lucis family, and the result..."

The nobleman was very upset.

"Mistake, this time, we all made a mistake!"

Under the watchful eyes of all the ministers, Elsa couldn't help but blush despite her outstanding psychological quality.

She put up her skirt and knelt down and said, "Elsa thanked His Majesty for the compliment. The three gifts that Elsa gave His Majesty had no other intentions, but just wanted to say to Your Majesty: There are a lot of iron ore in your territory, For sulfur flint and wood, if the empire needs it, I am willing to supply it in large quantities and guarantee a favorable price."

"I understand what you mean. I will let someone place an order to buy these resources at a suitable price. As for the price, I will never let Lord Elsa suffer!"

Zhou Ming said: "I also hope that other ministers and nobles, like Lord Elsa, think about what the empire thinks and are eager for the needs of the empire, instead of delving into crooked ways all day long and wasting a lot of people's fat and people's anointing in vain."

"In addition, in order to encourage everyone to learn from Lord Elsa, I ordered that Lord Elsa be rewarded with 10 gold tower shields, ten boxes of jewels, and her official position will be promoted by one level. She can stand in the noble district and listen to the government. Effective immediately!"

After Zhou Ming gave this reward, Elsa was immediately guided by officials from the Ministry of Rituals, and under the eyes of countless jealous eyes, she lined up from the end of the aristocratic district to the middle of the queue.

In this way, due to the shortened distance, the occlusion is reduced, and Zhou Ming can see her more easily.

Not only that, Zhou Ming also gave Elsa, who had just been promoted, a more difficult task - to send all the ministers and nobles, and the tens of thousands of beauties presented to him.

Because if all these beauties are returned in the same way, there is no doubt that during the process of returning these beauties, they will definitely be touched by the ministers and nobles, and a considerable part of them will not be sent home, but will be enjoyed by the ministers and nobles ... This is tantamount to harming them.

So with this in mind, Zhou Ming gathered all the tens of thousands of beauties together for the time being, and arranged for an official who could handle the matter properly.

Who is better to take charge of this matter?

Looking at the male officials in the palace, Elsa stands out from the crowd, as the only woman, it is most appropriate to entrust her with this job.

But considering the complexity and difficulty of this task, Zhou Ming still asked Elsa: Can she accept this job and complete it better?

Elsa frowned, considered carefully, then gritted her teeth, nodded and said, "Your Majesty, I can accept this job!"

"it is good!"

Zhou Ming praised: "Elsa, I believe that you will not let me down. If you complete the task well, I will reward you greatly!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Elsa knelt on one knee and said.

(End of this chapter)