Royal Gold Magistrate

Fang Zheng was bored at the door of the imperial study.

I wanted to hook up with the guards at the gate, but no one ignored him.

After an unknown amount of time, Emperor Jing walked over slowly, followed by Guo Tianyang.

After looking Fang Zhengyi up and down, he went straight into the room without saying a word.

Guo Tianyang whispered: "Come in."

Fang Zhengyi followed behind him obediently into the imperial study.

It's a pity that no seat was reserved for him this time.

Emperor Jing still didn't speak, but just buried his head in looking at some official documents.

Fang Zhengyi stood where he was, feeling in a daze as if he was called to the office by the teacher and punished to stand there.

Sleepy....

"Fang Zhengyi, I've demoted you to Jianjiang General Judge today, do you have any resentment in your heart?" Emperor Jing still lowered his head and spoke slowly.

"Chen, I don't have any resentment in my heart, but I'm not convinced." Fang Zhengyi replied honestly.

"Hundreds of officials are not interested in disaster relief. I just try to push them, so that many people can be saved from starvation."

"The minister is right."

Emperor Jing jumped up suddenly, and said angrily: "Fang Zhengyi! You are presumptuous! Where do you put the court's laws by doing this!"

"Do as you do, what's the face of the royal family and the court!"

Fangzheng said calmly, "Your Majesty, in my opinion, the face of the officials is not as important as the lives of the common people."

"You're courting death! How dare you talk back! Someone!"

"Wait a minute, Your Majesty!" Fang Zheng took out a stack of bank notes from his pocket as soon as he finished speaking.

"Your Majesty, this is the profit of Banshanfang's champion ticket in recent days plus taxes and other scattered income, a total of 23 taels."

Looking at the bank note, Emperor Jing suddenly calmed down.

He sneered and said, "What? Could it be that you still want to bribe me!?"

"I dare not!"

Then Fang Zhengyi took out another piece of paper from his pocket: "This is the amount of food I collected from the people, a total of 340 shi, all donated by ordinary people for the disaster area, and these are just less than half a day's worth of food."

"What do you mean? Do you want to use these to impress me and make me change my mind?"

"Are you done? I'm going to call someone when I'm done."

Fangzheng shook his head, then took out the third item.

A booklet was presented with both hands.

"Your Majesty, a line of newspapers consumes a huge amount of paper, and only needs five cents a piece. In the past, I would never have dared to publish it."

"However, Chen ordered people to study the papermaking industry and invented a new papermaking method, which can increase the output by five times, and the price of paper has dropped significantly."

"It's just that I have been busy with the Prince's Daily recently, so I haven't had the opportunity to present it to His Majesty. Now I have to travel far and present it to His Majesty together."

"There are also some important matters in Banshanfang. I just want to explain them clearly. I have no other intentions. Please don't worry too much, Your Majesty."

After finishing speaking, Fang Zheng went to that stop immediately!

I paid a shield today, let's see the result.

Emperor Jing looked at the booklet on the table in a daze.

Paper...five times the output...the price of paper has been greatly reduced, these words kept spinning in his mind.

It took a long time to recover, and he coughed twice in embarrassment.

"The voice I spoke just now was indeed a bit loud, give me a seat!"

Fang Zheng almost laughed out loud, it's real, it's so fucking real!

Afterwards, Fangzheng sat down in a hurry, and was really tired after standing for a long time.

Emperor Jing picked up the pamphlet and kept flipping through it, while Guo Tianyang looked at Fang Zhengyi enviously behind him.

Really good!You can coax His Majesty into being submissive, but we can't learn this trick!

After Emperor Jing finished flipping through the brochure, he couldn't help sighing.

"This method is very wonderful. If this method of making paper had already existed, wouldn't the number of talented people in Dajing be multiplied several times?"

"Fang Qing! This is a great achievement! Tell me, what reward do you want?"

Fangzheng thought for a while: "Your Majesty, if you don't want to go to Jianjiang, you can stay in Beijing. Your Majesty can let you do whatever you want."

"Then you enter the palace."

Guo Tianyang immediately felt creepy, and stared at Emperor Jing with wide eyes.

His Majesty!You don't want me anymore?

Apart from being younger than me, this kid is better than me!

Then he looked at Fang Zhengyi fiercely.

Fangzheng laughed and said, "Your Majesty really knows how to joke..."

Emperor Jing's expression became serious again: "You were the one who joked with me first! I asked you to go to Jianjiang in front of the courtiers, but when you turned around and you told me that you didn't want to go, I spoke well and changed how the world should look in less than a day. I?"

"another!"

"It's all up to His Majesty to arrange."

Seeing Fang Zhengyi's attitude, Emperor Jing said earnestly, "Don't feel resentful about today's matter. How dare you and the crown prince not discuss such a big matter with me."

"It's just that the demotion has already been lightly forgiven, otherwise you will suffer if I don't care about it!"

Fangzheng asked back: "If you tell His Majesty, will His Majesty let the minister do it?"

Emperor Jing was silent for a while, and then replied: "Of course we can do some things, but we shouldn't be so eager! I think I understand you! Why did you act so rudely this time without considering the consequences!"

Fangzheng's expression gradually turned serious, he looked at Emperor Jing with a complicated expression, and suddenly sighed: "Oh...Your Majesty, I used to be hungry too."

"At that time in Taoyuan County, every day should not be called, and the land was not working well. Many people died of starvation under the rule. I knelt everywhere and went to other places to beg for food, but they didn't get much food."

"At that time, I was thinking, why didn't a high official come out to save the people from the fire and water, and reward the people with a bite of food?"

"It's a pity... There is no such person, and the people in Taoyuan County are dying more and more."

A wry smile emerged from the corner of Fangzheng's mouth: "Now that I have become a high-ranking official in my eyes, knowing that people are suffering, can I enjoy life in Beijing with peace of mind without doing anything? No!"

Recalling the days when he first arrived in Taoyuan County, Fang Zhengyi was really heartbroken.

After Emperor Jing died, Guo Tianyang's face darkened visibly to the naked eye.

Fang Zhengyi, you fucking dare to imitate me blatantly!

grass!I'll be a dog if I talk to you later!

"What's more, this matter is not my own wish. The prince is also very enthusiastic. He racked his brains and tried every means to raise food and save people!"

"In order to fulfill the wish of the prince and the minister, the minister has no regrets or fear in his heart."

"Therefore, there is nothing wrong with being impulsive, and I hope His Majesty will punish you!"

Emperor Jing couldn't help being a little moved, but it didn't show on his face at all.

He just said lightly: "I know, go to Jianjiang now, you should be more careful."

Fangzheng was dumbfounded, was he sensational?In the end, you still have to go?

Then he asked: "Your Majesty, aren't you afraid that the minister will cause trouble again when he arrives in Jianjiang, and lose face for the court?"

Emperor Jing finally smiled again: "Whether face is important or life is more important, it all depends on you, Fang Qing."

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