Record of ups and downs in troubled times

"Lishui, Zhenshui, and Xijiang have broken their dikes, and the area from Nanhai County to Jiuyi Mountain has been submerged in the ocean. For the current plan, the people should be relocated first. I think it is better to move to central Guizhou first."

"I agree with you! The Linzi River and the Yuan River in the middle of Guizhou are now faintly flooding. It is the time when manpower is urgently needed to repair the dam. The victims moved to Qianzhong County and selected middle-aged men to repair the embankment may solve the problem. Dilemma."

"Is Dr. Lu's statement too exaggerated? Your Majesty, I disagree. These rivers are not prone to floods, and it is not the flood season at this time. The 'Wang Yang' statement must be exaggerated. Migrating people is a waste of money. I am afraid that the loss outweighs the gain. Why not find a place in the county that has not been hit by the flood, and order a respectable person to bring enough money and food to preside over the overall situation, and wait for two or three days before the flood subsides..."

"Dare to ask Doctor Zhang, how much do you know about water damage? What you said just now is like a child's joke, don't you have a conscience?!"

"Doctor Zhang didn't put himself in the place, how could he understand the suffering of the victims? Could it be that the people were immersed in the flood and waited for the water to recede?! Doctor Zhang said it was so easy, so you go! I think 'people of high morals', except you, the court There should be no second one!"

There was chaos in the hall.

Sitting upright, Liu Pu rubbed between his eyebrows, closed his eyes and sighed, feeling like he was in a chicken coop for a while.

When encountering major events, apart from quarreling and fighting with each other, aren't his group of courtiers all chickens?

"To shut up."

There was a lot of noise in the hall, and no one listened to his order.

"Shut up!" The emperor finally became angry, and he punched the desk in front of the pile of scrolls with his fist.The scrolls on the case fell to the ground in a mess, Zhou Zheng bent over in a hurry and rushed down to pick them up.

Suddenly there was no sound.

There was silence in the hall for a moment, and then two or three sounds of feet stepping on jade bricks suddenly sounded: Cheng Nan, Prime Minister Cheng, stood up.

"Everyone has different opinions, and there are reasons for each side. With my humble opinion, if I don't understand the situation, it is difficult to judge whether it is right or wrong. What Dr. Zhang said just now is also reasonable. Why don't you first find someone with high morals and respect in the court as he said, before How about visiting the disaster area?" Cheng Nan always spoke slowly, "As for who will be lucky enough to take on this important task, do you have any candidates in mind?"

Everyone whispered again, pooled their opinions, and recommended one person: "If you talk about virtue and prestige, there is no one who is more suitable than the person I mentioned. In my humble opinion, the regent of Yundian is wise and brave, and now he is As soon as Shifu took office, it was time to establish his prestige and convince others, and besides him, there is no one else who can take on this important task."

For a moment, everyone's eyes turned to the emperor, wondering how he would deal with it.

Hearing this, Emperor Liu Pu didn't seem so surprised: Even if the regent is not a fool, he will definitely be made things difficult by his officials.What's more, the regent of their dynasty, when he heard others mocking and insulting him, he would just play with his waist ring and smirk amidst the tinkling of rings.

"Eh, speaking of the regent, why didn't he come to the court today to discuss matters?" Dr. Lu looked around and asked in surprise, as if he had just discovered this fact.All the officials in the court knew that Mrs. Lu was close to the Cheng family. At this time, he was backed by someone, and he was not afraid of offending the regent: "Could it be that we think our words are obscure and boring?"

When it comes to keeping others from getting off the stage, Liu Pu can only lose but not win.

Although he couldn't understand Liu Zheng's stupid look, he also felt that this shit-stirring stick surnamed Lu was very distasteful, so he immediately replied with disgust, "Yeah."

This cold, sarcastic "um" is really similar to Cheng Chengxiang's eccentric face.The two looked at each other for a moment, narrowed their eyes thoughtfully, and curled the corners of their mouths silently.

"Anyway, this is a big matter, so we must invite the regent to come, right?"

Before the other ignorant and reckless fellow could finish speaking, a young general in short armor rushed in and shouted, "Your Majesty!"

He is young and light, with a ferocious tiger's head painted on his forehead, which seems to belong to the imperial tiger army.This army has always obeyed Zou Ji's orders and has always been loyal to the emperor, so when all the officials dragged the young general to ask "what's going on", he only looked eagerly at the emperor, waiting for Liu Pu's order.

"Say." Liu Pu ordered in a deep voice.

After hearing this sentence, the young general hurriedly proclaimed: "Your Majesty! King Xiaoxiang and the regent King Yundian are fighting in the school grounds!"

He was still about to speak in a hurry, but Zhou Zheng who was standing on the side patted his shoulder heavily, and then he suddenly stopped talking and came to his senses: he came in such a hurry that he forgot to take the occasion into consideration.Whether it is King Xiaoxiang or King Yundian, they are all children of the royal family. How can he announce the internal affairs of the royal family in the court hall?

"The disaster in the South China Sea just now has some clues. Now that the national treasury is empty, we should serve as ministers. Why don't you all donate some disaster relief money and send it to Nanhai County to fulfill your meager responsibilities. To be collected It’s not too late to mention these things, who will appease the people.”

It was Luo Ke, the royal historian, who made the rescue.

He is already old, his beard is already half white, and he is the former master Zheng Taifu's apprentice, no one should respect him a little.Hearing his decision at this moment, all the officials knew that they had to give the old man a little bit of face, so they obediently kept their mouths shut, echoed a few times, true or false, and hurriedly ended today's court discussion.

After dismissing this pile of "loose sand", Liu Pu immediately followed others to the Baibuting school grounds, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt a headache.

Regardless of how these two people got together, the young King Xiang is very difficult: the father of this cousin is the younger brother of Emperor Chaowen.His son inherited the title of "King Xiang" from his father, and he has always been a fearless master, even the bureaucrats in the whole court, who would he not dare to provoke?

His father, King Xiang, died in front of the palace gate during the Shangyuan festival.The Yulin and Huben troops in the imperial capital have always been masters like clouds, but they failed to protect the life of the old King Xiang, and even the assassin was not found out afterwards.After this incident, King Xiaoxiang took all the anger of killing his father on these generals guarding the palace city, and he was at odds with them.

The Baibuting is full of troops from the imperial guards, he dared to make trouble here, he must have come prepared.

Before he got close, he only looked from afar, and he saw a huge crowd of people gathered on the racetrack.After taking a closer look, it was clear that the imperial guards and King Xiang's servants were mixed together, the clothes and emblems were in a mess, a few broken knives and swords were lying on the ground, and there were still many people with colorful clothes on their bodies. ? !

Liu Pu watched coldly, with a dark face, passed the crowd, and walked towards the two "heroes" standing in a stalemate.

Naturally, these two couldn't be King Yundian and King Xiang himself: they are both noble, so they don't need to fight in person.The person with the family emblem sash of Prince Xiang's Mansion on his waist should be the personal bodyguard of Prince Xiaoxiang, and the one standing with his back to the emperor and holding a sword...

It's actually the second son of Tan? !

Liu Pu was surprised, but it was hard to show it in public.He calmed down all the emotions in his heart, glanced at the wide eyes who were holding the ax in one hand, and held the King of Yundian in his arms, and then looked at the little King Xiang standing behind the guards, and asked coolly: "King Xiang, don't you?" Give me an explanation?"

"Explanation?" King Xiaoxiang was like his father who died in vain, with fat piled all over his face, and it almost seemed to flow down when he spoke. "I said, brother, you should also take care of these little bastards who wield knives and guns. If you want me to explain it, then teach them to give me an explanation first!"

Liu Pu stared at the "rotten meat" for a while, then turned his head and asked a young general with a white tiger headband on his forehead, "What's going on?"

This young general, well-dressed and extraordinary in temperament, is Zou Ling, the third son of Huben Zhonglang General Zou Ji.Hearing the emperor calling him, he stepped forward and whispered in his ear: "Your Majesty, when Zhi Jinwu was inspecting last night, he came across the carriage frame of King Xiang's concubine. Zhi Jinwu dealt with it according to the regulations, but the woman refused to let go and provoked many times! The two teams fought each other, and then..."

"Did you kill him?" Liu Pu asked in a low voice, feeling quite helpless in his heart: "King Xiang is lustful, who doesn't know?"It's enough to catch the whole thing, it's just a concubine, why kill him?

It's fishy all over the body.

Liu Pu cursed a few words in secret, raised his hand to catch Tan Yangui's sword-holding wrist, and first pressed down the sword light pointing at King Xiang's head.The guard of Prince Xiang's mansion on the opposite side didn't dare to point his sword directly at the emperor's side, but when he saw Tan Yan put the sword back, he dropped his hand.

"It's just a woman. With King Xiang's appearance, do you want any woman?" As soon as Liu Pu said these words, people around him couldn't help but laugh.Before King Xiang blushed and came back cursing, he immediately changed the subject and said, "When is the time for Mrs. Xiang to go out? Did you violate the curfew?"

King Xiang argued urgently: "It's not Madam! It's just a concubine!"

Hearing this, the surrounding audience laughed inwardly again: King Xiang's royal family is famous for being pungent.This time, he came to Baibuting to seek trouble, probably because he wanted to trouble Yulin and Huben, and he forgot about the tigress at home for a while without caring about other things.

Everyone laughed, but Liu Pu didn't laugh.He snorted coldly and put on airs: "What I'm asking is, is there anyone who violated the curfew?"

King Xiang kowtowed, but refused to answer.

"It's a crime!" Before the dozens of Jinwu officers and soldiers present could answer, the good boy Zou Ling shook his wits and answered for King Xiang.

"Everyone in the court should know that the curfew order came from Jingren Palace. The newly revised decree three years ago was written by myself. Anyone who violates this decree is not against Zhi Jinwu, but against me. Can the emperor make it through?"

Hearing the emperor's sharp words, King Xiang couldn't help turning those two dim yellow eyeballs.

"I know that because of the matter of the old King Xiang, you have been venting your anger on the imperial guards. In the past, when the late emperor was here, you were allowed to run amok, but now you should restrain yourself! Yulin, Huben, and even the mere Jinwu, if you have private affairs with your servants Dou, not to mention killing a few people is easy, self-protection is not difficult." Liu Pu said slowly, pointing to the dozen young guards present with wounds, and said sharply: "They are sincere and dare not hurt you, you Is it because of this that you dare to come here to make a fuss in my palace?!"

On the huge school field, apart from the emperor's angry shout, there was no sound of a needle falling.Take a closer look, some of the older palace guards even have red eyes.

They felt wronged.

Compared with ten years of cold windows, their warriors also survived bumps and bumps day by day, not much easier than literati!When they were finally able to protect the court with martial arts, they were overwhelmed by the four words "emphasis on literature over martial arts".That's not to mention, compared to the troops who fought in the army, their imperial guards were ridiculed as "running dogs who eat idle food"!

yes!We are lackeys!Even a concubine of King Xiang dared to step on our heads!But if it wasn't for this group of "running dogs" guarding peace in the capital, you wouldn't even know how you died!

Hearing that the situation was urgent, Zou Ji, the general of Huben Zhonglang who hurried all the way into the school grounds, happened to hear what the emperor said.He has guarded the court for more than 30 years. Now that he is nearly [-] years old, his hair and beard are grizzled, and he burst into tears for a moment. He sighed that he was about to die, and finally heard His Majesty whom he had served all his life speak for him.

"Don't dare, but it's just a joke, brothers, don't take it seriously." The plump little King Xiang gave in and argued with a smile.

Even if he loses face disheartened, he has to make up for it first: being confronted by the emperor and being surrounded by a group of enraged Imperial Guard masters, if he refuses to admit it, he may not be able to leave the school alive today. .

"Wait a minute!" Another cold shout interrupted King Xiang's thoughts of retreating step by step to the outside of the school grounds.The emperor moved his feet slightly, and pointed at Liu Zheng, the king of Yundian who was supported by Kuo Mu, "What does King Xiaoxiang have to say about this matter?"