Tang's dining table

No one fell for it.

The only people who dared to come forward to argue with the emperor were the big guys. Those with lower status kept their mouths tightly shut for fear that an inappropriate word would pop out of their mouths.

This debate lasted from six o'clock in the morning to three o'clock in the afternoon, but there was still no result.

The emperor sat firmly on the Diaoyutai and did not express his position. He just sat there. For a while, he even closed the curtain and went out for a while. Yunchu probably went to pay his respects or have something to eat.

During the break, the palace officials provided some simple cakes and water to the big bosses. Officials like Yunchu could only watch.

Yunchu didn't care at all what the officials said. He only knew that the emperor took this matter very seriously.

At the same time, it is also a test of the emperor's power. No matter what, he will carry this matter through to the end.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, many people finally couldn't bear it anymore and asked for leave to go out for a while. It's not that they had agreed with the emperor's suggestion, it was really heartless.

Fortunately, the officials of the Tang Dynasty were relatively strong. The generals had muscles and the civil servants had stomachs. They could tolerate not eating for a day.

Therefore, the emperor held the meeting until eight o'clock in the evening.

The emperor did not care about food, so those who had an official office in the imperial city could still ask the canteen over there to send them some food. Those who did not have an official canteen had to eat some of the food provided by their colleagues.

Naturally, Wen Wenwen and Di Renjie were food lovers, and they were eating Yun Chu's food.

The food at the Imperial Medical Office is considered to be the best among the many canteens in the imperial city. The eunuch was very eye-catching when he came in with three large food boxes.

Because the Imperial Medical Office has the cash cow of the Imperial Hospital, its life is much better than that of other departments in Datang.

So when Yun Chu, Wen Wen, and Di Renjie took out crystal elbows, sausages, and fried chicken from their respective food boxes, others could only watch.

Officials with integrity would turn their heads in disgust when they see Yunchu and the others drinking cold fermented glutinous rice.

A scum like Brother Yuwen would humbly place a few sauces, vegetable leaves, a piece of meat and a bowl of cooked rice mixed with yellow rice and flour from the canteen of the Overwatch Council next to Yun Chu and their meals. Let’s have a good time together.

"Brother Yuwen is well-informed in the Procuratorate. Do you think the rebuttal of the ministers this time can make His Majesty change his mind?"

Brother Yuwen took out a chicken bone from his mouth, took another sip of glutinous rice and said: "Judging from the current situation, Your Majesty must make the ministers agree with him. If Your Majesty forces this matter to pass, the result will be to wait until it is implemented." At this stage, the ministers would deliberately delay it, and in the end this political matter would end without any problem.

The ministers were also very worried about whether there would be any trouble if they collided with His Majesty, and whether His Majesty would blame them for it?

Anyway, the current situation is that both sides are afraid of fighting against wolves.

However, in someone's opinion, the most likely measure His Majesty can take is to select some places and send his confidants to handle the matter. When problems arise in these places, they can be implemented without any scruples.

After all, it is the duty of officials to oppose bad governance, and it is also their duty to support good governance.

If it were the other way around, it would probably be time for His Majesty to wipe out the court with blood. "

After listening to Brother Yuwen's words, Yunchu and the others nodded repeatedly, having to admit that Yu Wenhua and the blood-related descendants of this white-faced and traitorous official still had some skills.

Next, there will be a contest of knowledge between the children of the poor family and the children of the noble family. Everyone knows that the children of the poor family will lose miserably. However, everyone admits that as long as one of a hundred children from the poor family can succeed, Then, the final victory still belongs to the poor people.

After all, the comparison in numbers between the two is not on the same scale at all.

"Brother Yuchu just got a female master from the Cui family, so the Yun family school is about to open?"

Brother Yuwen's ability to discern subtle things is not bad at all, and he even has the intention to draw inferences from one example. He really wants to know whether Wannian County under Yunchu's command will become a testing ground for the emperor's new learning.

Yun Chu sighed and said, "I thought I got a precious lump from the Cui family, but it turned out that I got a saint. He must be educated without discrimination."

Yun Chu didn't explain too much, but he gave enough information, that is, their family was going to open a girls' school.

Brother Yuwen took out another chicken bone from his mouth and said: "That's very good, that's very good. When Brother Yuchu's home school opens, there are still a few girls in the family who want to go to school. Then they will be sent to them." , Shu Xiu is not lacking anything."

Yun Chu said in surprise: "Brother Yuwen's family has a long history of education. Why do our sisters also need to be sent to study outside?"

Brother Yuwen took out a chicken bone from his mouth and said, "This evil thief Yu Wenji has done a lot of harm to our Yuwen family. If he hadn't strangled Yang Guang to death, the Yuwen family wouldn't have been in this state."

Wen Wenwen ate a piece of crystal elbow, looked at Brother Yuwen and said, "At least your Yuwen family has been famous in Yangzhou for a few days."

Brother Yuwen sighed, took out a chicken bone from his mouth and said: "For those few days of worthless glory, I sacrificed the Yuwen family's family fortune accumulated over hundreds of years. Forget it, the winner is the king or the loser, don't say it. Whatever."

After saying this, he picked up the glutinous rice wine, rinsed his mouth, swallowed it in one gulp, said goodbye, and walked away.

"A stupid person ate two chickens!" Wen Wen snorted coldly, extremely dissatisfied with this person's behavior.

"People just come to us to inquire about information, and they can get two chickens to eat, but it's not a loss at all."

Yun Chu looked at the horizon that was about to turn dark and said to Wen Wen, "Your Majesty, I don't know if it's useful to torment your ministers like this."

Wen Wen said: "It's just to show your position. Anyway, there will definitely be an unlucky guy today.

Now, everyone is very nervous. We just don’t know who the unlucky guy will be first. It is estimated that no one will mention this matter when we go to court later. The three of us should keep our mouths shut at this time. Whoever talks too much at this time will be in trouble, and it is time for Your Majesty to show his authority. "

When it got dark, the lights in the Tai Chi Hall were brightly lit, and the officials walked into the hall again. This time, everyone's footsteps sounded very soft.

After the big guys entered the main hall from the court rooms on both sides of the Tai Chi Hall, the only sound left in the huge hall was the sound of water leaking and dripping.

Li Zhi came to his seat, and then the eunuch screamed at the top of his lungs: "Your Majesty has a decree, let's discuss it later!"

After the eunuch finished shouting, he shook his fly whisk and returned to the edge of the curtain with his head drooped, trying his best to hide his body so as not to suffer the disaster of fish in the pond at this time.

At this time, Li Zhi no longer looked drowsy, but raised his head high, and looked at the ministers below with a pair of eyes. He was already a little irritable, canceling the benefits of noble sons in their official careers. This matter must be done and cannot be postponed.

Yun Chu stood up straight, holding the wat in his arms and looking straight at him. Brother Yuwen next to him exuded a strong smell of roast chicken, and his face was also solemn, as if he were a city.

The sound of water droplets falling from the water leak hitting the alms bowl resounded throughout the hall. This rhythmic movement brought great pressure to the ministers, like a white-fronted tiger hiding in the darkness, ready to charge at any time. Come out to choose people and devour them.

"Your Majesty - I am wronged -" A shrill cry of injustice made the ministers in the hall tremble. They all followed the sound and saw Chang Shulai, the imperial censor, holding the wat tablet in his hand and kneeling once again. The center of the hall.

"Your Majesty - Yun Chu, this evil thief..."

Just when everyone was praising Chang Shu's extraordinary courage, Li Zhi, who was sitting at the top, said in a deep voice: "Drag him out and behead him!"

Chang Shulai collapsed on the ground after hearing the words, unable to say a word. Four warriors in armor walked in from outside the palace, took off Chang Shulai's official hat and placed it in a lacquer tray, and then dragged it He followed Chang Shulai and walked out.

"Ding dong——" A drop of water fell from the water leak in the hall again, ringing in the hearts of the ministers like thunder.

The emperor had murderous intentions when he went to court, which was extremely rare in the Tang Dynasty. Even when Emperor Taizong was at his most powerful, he did not commit murder on the spot.

Now that Li Zhi has done it, it shows how angry Li Zhi is in his heart at this moment and needs to kill people to relieve the irritability in his heart.

At this time, the prime ministers had to stand up, but the first one to speak was Changsun Wuji. After holding the wat board and saluting the emperor, he said softly: "Your Majesty has always been kind, and you must not do this because of Chang Shulai. Even if it’s a trivial matter, he’ll do something violent.”

Li Zhi looked at Changsun Wuji and said, "Is Mr. Zhao trying to teach me a lesson?"

Changsun Wuji sighed softly and said, "Old minister, I don't dare."

To be honest, Li Zhi's performance today was beyond Yunchu's expectations. In the past, the emperor never ordered killings personally. If he wanted to kill someone, he would go through Li Yifu, Xu Jingzong, and the queen's hands. Usually he would kill himself. It was so clean and so proactive today that Yun Chu felt like he had seen a ghost.

Changsun Wuji was dismissed by the emperor, and the prime ministers who wanted to go out to plead for Chang Shulai also stopped.

Ever since the ministers like Chu Suiliang, Han Yuan, and Lai Ji who dared to speak out all suffered misfortunes, no one in the court dared to speak out and give advice casually.

Soon, after Chang Shulai's head was cleaned, it was placed on a red lacquered wooden plate and brought up.

Chang Shulai's appearance before her death was very stretched, and the look of fear on her face was completely preserved. The sharp-eyed Yun Chu even saw two tears hanging in Chang Shulai's eyes that had not completely lost their color. .

After Chang Shulai's head was carried around the exhibition hall by the samurai, Li Zhi's gloomy voice sounded again.

"Pei Qing, Li Qing, please go over the regulations you have drawn up. Let's discuss tonight whether this strategy can be implemented."

With a human head as the foundation, Pei Xingjian and Li Jingxuan were more confident. They used their hoarse voices to recite "Deposed Recommendations, Xingjuan Shu" once again on the spot.

For a long time, no one answered.

Changsun Wuji's sigh suddenly sounded in the hall.

"Your Majesty, the old minister is old and can't bear the hard work. I would like to ask your Majesty to allow the veteran minister to rest in his residence. As for what the court minister has asked, your majesty has made his decision, and the veteran minister will agree to it."

As soon as Changsun Wuji finished speaking, he heard Li Ji's voice echoing in the hall.

"Your Majesty, I am ignorant. For such a big matter, Your Majesty can just decide on your own. I only hope that Your Majesty will follow your lead."

See you tomorrow