Reincarnation of the powerful minister

The proprietress of the wonton stand—no, maybe she should be called “one of the gatekeepers”—was galloping on a snowy road.

The half of the mechanism sleeve was hidden in her arms, pressing against her flesh coldly, and emitting a faint stench.

Because of the cold weather, the smell was very thin at first, but as the journey went on for a long time, the smell became more and more obvious, until it was unbearable, like a pile of shit in your chest.

——What kind of "evidence" did this damn Jin Yiwei Shen Qi submit, and why did he stink like this!

While silently cursing Shen Qi, she pinched her nose and hurried on, hoping to hand over the sleeve to the player before killing herself.

Of course, in her capacity, she is not qualified to meet the player.

After changing hands twice, the sleeve on the tray and the gatekeeper's secret report were sent to Mr. He.

Mr. He lifted the cover cloth on the tray, took two steps back due to the stench, and said with a frown, "What is it!"

The female believer carrying the tray said: "Jin Yiwei Shen Qi claimed that Emperor Jing Long's death due to the failed craniotomy is his credit. Because he sneaked into the treatment room halfway and moved his hands and feet, this is the evidence he submitted to the player. .”

In this way, it is indeed important evidence, no matter how stinky it is, it must be tolerated.

Mr. Crane resisted the urge to cover his nose, regained his appearance of a wild crane in the clouds, and said to the believers: "Take it, follow me."

In the quiet room, the full moon window was wide open, outside the window was drizzling, and the cold wind was blowing in with water vapor, making it very cold and clammy.

Players play chess by the window, holding black in one hand and white in the other, fighting each other left and right.

The wide-brimmed conical hat on his head hung down a long smoky-gray veil from the top of his head to the instep of his feet, completely covering his figure.

The figure of Mr. Crane appeared at the door of the room, and the player did not turn his head, and raised his voice: "Are you free? Come and talk with me for a game."

"No time." Mr. He said bluntly, "I'm busy avoiding arrest warrants, so I can't be more relaxed than you."

The chess player lightly said: "The hidden sword gate and the Seven Killing Battalion are in the light, and I am in the dark, and your vacuum sect is between the light and the dark. Isn't this an agreement before? Why did the resentment breed and come towards me?"

Mr. He asked the female believer to put the tray on the floor, and waved her out. Just now, he straightened his clothes and sat cross-legged opposite the chess table, picking up the white pieces on the endgame one by one, and putting them in the dowry.

The stench permeated the drape covering the tray and began to float in the room.

"You brought shit to see me?" Yi Zhe asked.

Mr. He said calmly: "If you have shit in your heart, you will see everything as shit."

The chess player replied: "There is no Buddha in my heart, but I opened the red lotus all over the fools."

After laughing at each other, the two smiled.

Mr. Crane told the gatekeeper's report, and the player asked his confidant to take half of the mechanism sleeve to open it, and found an oiled paper bag inside. After removing the oiled paper, he saw a sticky, pulpy, rotten thing. It is about the size of a chicken egg, and there is a thin film on the surface. I don't know what it is?

The chess player ordered the doctor and Wu to conduct a careful inspection, and finally came to the conclusion that it was suspected to be a mass of human brains, which had rotted and smelled because it had been dug out for more than a month.This is also because it is severe winter, if the weather is hotter, the smell will be even worse.

...Could it be that Shen Qi wanted to use this rotten piece of headless brain to prove that she dug out the late emperor's brain in the treatment room?

Is this submitting evidence, or deliberately disgusting people?

The player and Mr. Crane looked at each other in silence.

After a long time, Mr. He said: "This Shen Qi...is a lunatic, but you still want to use him?"

The player said: "Not only is he crazy, but he is also ruthless and cunning. had to fall into our trap."

In the Fenghe Bieyuan, Chen Shiyu rummaged through the bottles and jars and couldn't find it. He hurried out of the ice cellar and asked the drug boy: "I brought a jar of water essence back from the palace. It's frozen in the ice cellar, on the bottom shelf. Who took it?"

Several drug boys looked at each other and shook their heads one after another: "It's not me!"

Chen Shiyu sighed regretfully: "The evil thing that was completely removed from the head disease patient's brain, what a rare medical case, I wanted to study it carefully...how did I lose it?"

On February [-]th, Zhu Helin held the enthronement ceremony in Fengtian Hall, prayed to God, read out the last emperor's edict, and officially enthroned.

Just the night before the grand ceremony, he still had the hope that "maybe the emperor has woken up and can continue to govern", so he ventured out of the palace and sneaked into the Fenghe courtyard.

After sitting next to his father's bed for a whole night, Zhu Helin finally realized the reality: the emperor won't wake up for a while, and even if he wakes up, it will take a period of recovery.Even if he can wait, the uneasy subjects can't wait, let alone the situation of internal and external troubles.

No one can be his backer anymore, he must take over the heavy burden of the country and make himself a mountain to be relied on by others.

However, this mountain is quite difficult. Before he ascended the throne, he had a quarrel with officials from the Ministry of Rites.

The problem is with the year number.

Years are not fixed.During the reign of the emperors of all dynasties, the year names were different. When encountering major events such as "auspiciousness from heaven" or internal strife and external worries, the year names were sometimes changed.

The first emperor's year name was "Jinglong", which remained unchanged for 18 years during his reign, so he was called "Emperor Jinglong".According to the etiquette system, when the new king ascends the throne, the year name must be changed, so after the Ministry of Rites and Qin Tianjian discussed together, they drafted more than a dozen year names for the new king to choose.

Zhu Helin didn't like any of them, and finally decided on a year name for himself, called Qinghe.

"Haiyan Heqing, what a good omen." He said eloquently, "Father also likes this, and his 'spirit in heaven' will definitely be satisfied."

Qin Tianjian only cares about good and bad luck, as long as the result of divination is good, he has no objection.The old ministers of the Ministry of Rites were blown up——

Who doesn't know that the most famous person in the dynasty, the newly appointed left servant of the official department, Mr. Su Yansu, has the nickname "Qinghe"?

What is the meaning of the Emperor Si, is he still wanting to use this to tell the world that he treats Su Shilang differently, has special affection, and even uses the year name as a mandarin alliance?

Although many people secretly suspect that there may be something out of the ordinary between Xinjun and Su Shilang, as long as the light is out, almost no one will dig deep into the king's privacy, and confront the iron-toothed Su Twelve. Bar, after all, Jia Gongji Jia Yushi who was dismissed is a lesson from the past.

But Emperor Si's move clearly put his personal affair on the table, and he didn't even need to cover it up!

The officials of the Ministry of Rites were in an uproar, admonishing and refuting one after another, and the backlash was fierce.

Even Su Yan himself became angry after hearing about this.He immediately entered the palace and asked Zhu Helin to dispel this strange idea and set another year.

Zhu Helin used to be obedient to him, but he was very resolute in this matter, almost to the point of being stubborn.

Even Su Yan's saliva said that it didn't work, so he finally decided to burn Zhu Helin's collection of scriptures and little yellow pictures in a cabinet with his own hands.

In the end, Zhu Helin reluctantly compromised... In half, he changed "Qinghe" to "Qinghe" and declared to the public that the two characters were taken from the sage books, which meant "Jingshi Qingping, Baode Yanghe". Shun the world.

Officials from the Ministry of Rites flipped through the book and found these two words, and even if the common people had not read poetry, they could easily understand "Qinghe" as "harmony between the government and the Qing people", which is not outrageous.

Although the officials still feel that there is ambiguity, they still accept it as soon as it is good, so as not to be accused of being an old servant and deceiving the master.

In the end, the year name was decided in such a twists and turns.

Zhu Helin made a small concession and won the first war of words with the officials with homophonic stalks.

As for Su Yan, Su Yan has nothing to say... He suspected that Zhu Helin had thought of the word "Qinghe" from the beginning, otherwise he would not have prepared the origin of the two words in advance. Open the window, first say that the roof will be demolished" psychological tactics.

The final result was in the hands of this kid, and he still had to put on an aggrieved face of "I am wronged, I was bullied by you veterans before I formally ascended the throne".

The little tiger cub with its fangs and claws turned around and grew into a big tiger. It also has a natural rogue spirit, ruffian and tough, and it is completely different from his father... Su Yan raised his forehead and felt that he was a famous teacher. There is a long way to go.

At the first Fengtianmen court meeting after the enthronement ceremony, Zhu Helin decreed to promote and reward a group of officials, most of whom contributed to the "Prince's return to the throne" incident, the first two were Su Yan and Shen Qi.

Su Yan took the official position of Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Officials, was conferred the title of Bachelor of Wenhua Palace, and formally entered the cabinet.

Shen Qi was promoted to be the commander of Jin Yiwei, and in charge of the seal of the guard.

Other promoted officials vary.

Su Yan knew that Zhu Helin wanted him to join the cabinet, but he was ranked third as soon as he entered the cabinet, which was somewhat unexpected.

The first-ranked "Scholar of Zhongji Temple" is the new Chief Assistant Yang Ting, who has not run away; although Xie Shiyan does not have much political achievements, after all, his qualifications are there, and he is the second-ranked "Scholar of Jianji Temple".

And he, Su Yan, had just joined the cabinet, and he was the only "elder of the weak crown". He thought he would start from the bottom, but he didn't expect to be the third.

Zhu Helin conferred the titles of the other two ministers promoted from the Six Departments as "Grand Scholars of Wuyingdian" and "Grand Scholars of Wenyuan Pavilion", ranking fourth and fifth respectively.

The last "Dongge Grand Scholar" was left empty first, like a visible but inedible sweet pastry, which was used by Zhu Helin to lure officials who wanted to join the cabinet-do you want this last fat vacancy?Then listen to me and work hard for me.

Su Yan was also convinced, and asked privately afterwards: "Who gave you this idea?"

Zhu Helin glanced at him triumphantly: "Young master thought of it yourself!"

Not only that, but the new emperor, who had a lot of ghost ideas, also readjusted the positions of the cabinet ministers: the first assistant remained unchanged, the second assistant was only left with two people, and the others were group assistants.

With one principal, two assistants, and three teaching assistants, the cabinet immediately had a clear voice.

Su Yan, who was promoted to second assistant, seemed to be on an equal footing with the senior Xie Shiyan.

When the courtiers thought that Su Yan was favored by the late emperor, and at his young age, he was already too popular, Su Yan became popular again overnight, and almost became an extremely courtier.

The Su Mansion was crowded with people immediately, and many officials came to embrace the upstart's thighs openly and secretly, and many even used the banner of the same year and classmates to solicit connections.

He even participated in the same exam as him, because the number room was next to the toilet during the exam, which caused him to perform abnormally. In the end, he only got mixed up with an official from the local magistrate.

There are still many low-level officials and scholars who have not been selected, who can't even touch the edge of "same year" and "classmates", so they thought of a way to engrave seals "Su Xueshi's cattle and horses go so and so" and "under the twelve sects" Running dog so-and-so" - this so-and-so is their own name, stamped on the words they wrote and painted, blatantly flaunting themselves everywhere.

All of a sudden, all the streets in the capital were Su Twelve's "runners" who were waving folding fans, and the empty seal pillars of various materials in the brush and inkstone shop were all sold out.

Su Yan was annoyed to death by these uninvited cattle, horses and lackeys, so he secretly ran to Shen Qi's residence to hide for a few days.

He even had PTSD on the three words "Su Ge Lao". He was tired of being called "Ge Lao" by flattering officials, and subconsciously asked the other party: "What is old, do you think I am very old?"

The other party was stunned, and thought about it when he went home: "...So that's the case! He thinks that the cabinet has a prime minister, but it doesn't have the name of a prime minister!"

So this rumor gradually spread, and many people stopped calling him "Su Ge Lao", and directly called him "Su Xiang".

The problem is that Emperor Taizu abolished the post of prime minister and set up a cabinet because he was worried that the prime minister would centralize power too much.In the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were only four prime ministers, and three were killed by Taizu.

Now he is called "Xiang" because he wants to ask for auspicious decapitation?What's more, he is only the second assistant, and there is a first assistant above him!

Su Yan: I am not!I don't!Don't talk nonsense!

Minions: You are!you're worth it!Don't be too modest!

Speaker: Impeach him!

The new emperor who received the impeachment transcript: ...hahahahaha, I also think "Su Xiang" sounds better than "Su Ge Lao".

Yan Guan: Admonish the emperor!The emperor speaks carefully!

Xindi slammed the playbook: Which beep beep?Stand up, Hulumosi has just paid tribute to two lions, and it happens that there is no one in charge of grooming and feeding. You are so loyal, why not come to share your worries.

Speaker: ...

It is a joke to be beaten to death by the imperial staff, and it is a joke to feed the lion and feed yourself into the lion's mouth.

Forget it, Su Xiang is just Su Xiang, left and right is just a title in an informal setting.

Can't commit.