The clock in the Qianqing Palace made a soft sound.

Shen Shiqing sandwiched a jade charm with a tassel between the pages of the book to serve as a bookmark, and closed the book.

She raised her hand and touched her chest. Inside was Emperor Zhaode's heart. This heart did not have the benevolence of a monarch. Rather than having a heart that could care about the world, it was better to say that it was a heart that was good at maneuvering.

"Some people once said that listening to your words is better than ten years of studying. Today, the common woman finally learned the lesson. She sat on the dragon chair for nearly a month. Her majesty woke her up with just one word."

It turns out that this is the emperor? It turns out that this is the aloof emperor.

You don’t have to take the people of the world into your heart, and you don’t have to think hard about how to make more people live and work in peace and contentment. You just need to regard everyone and everything in the world as ants that can be killed at any time, and you can be an emperor.

Because he is the emperor, it is natural for him to step on top of the common people and enjoy all the glory and wealth.

With heavy eyes, Shen Shiqing thought a lot in a very short moment.

But her heart was empty.

Rubbing the pages of the book with her hand, looking at the word "Shang Shu" on the cover, she said slowly in her heart:

"Your Majesty, you told the women of the people in one sentence. If the women of the people want to be useful to the world, they cannot move forward along your old path. That road only has power and no people, only scheming but no sincerity. This is not the way of a common woman."

After speaking, Shen Shiqing paused.

Zhao Surui's voice did not ring out in her heart.

Because an hour has passed.

She did not say these words to the monarch named Zhao Surui.

Putting "Shang Shu" aside, Shen Shiqing walked off the dragon bed and walked to the window made of rosewood.

There was a deep winter wind whistling by outside. There was only a small opening in the window, and the gust of wind blew everyone's head and face.

Hearing the noise in the house, Yiji walked quietly into the inner room and saw their emperor standing by the window, with his hair disheveled and barefoot, letting the cold wind blow. He quickly took off his soft-soled shoes and knelt down to walk all the way. Sent to the Emperor's side.

"Your Majesty, I will help you put on your shoes."

"No, just put your shoes on the ground."

The emperor has said so, Yi Ji can only do it.

With both feet on the shoes, Shen Shiqing gently exhaled the turbid air in her body.

"One chicken?"

"Your Majesty."

"Should the Four Rats let the people from Dongchang go to the Ning'an Palace every day to watch the Prince of Ying County imitating his ancestors by eating coarse grains and wearing linen clothes?"

"When I got back to the emperor, the people from Dongchang surrounded Ning'an's residence, so that they couldn't even get a mouse out. Si Shu came back and said that the Prince of Yingjun gave them a lot of money every day. Every day, Si Shu said On the same day, I changed people and collected all the money. Now there are about more than three thousand taels of silver. Together with the silver we got from the King of England before, we sent it to the Firearms Research Institute. I think it is enough. It took them a while."

Knowing that the emperor has a problem with the Prince of Ying County, these eunuchs naturally have to find a way to comply with the emperor's wishes. This is a small trick used by them to send people to Ning'an Bo's house to keep an eye on them every day. Every time I go there, I can grab a handful from the hands of the uncle’s house and the prince of Yingjun. The quantity is not much, but it is enough to disgust people...

"Yeah." Shen Shiqing nodded and closed the window herself.

The moment the window closed, she asked softly: "Er Gou also gave away all the money he has received over the years?"

In an instant, a chicken buried its head on the ground and made a muffled sound.

When the emperor mentioned something to them before, he noticed that Ergou's expression was wrong. He asked in private. At first, Ergou gritted his teeth and refused to tell, but then he told the truth. In the past few years, there were many people in the Yingjun Prince's palace.

The total amount of money sent to his home was tens of thousands taels. Ergou thought that there was nothing he could not take from the feudal king's money, and then he realized that he had got into a big trouble.

When Yiji entered the palace at the age of twelve, he was assigned to the same place as Ergou, who was only nine years old. Later, Yiji was assigned to serve King Zhaoqin, and Ergou was still a little eunuch who swept the house until King Zhaoqin became the crown prince.

, became the emperor again, and if you want to eradicate Zhang Wan, you need a few capable eunuchs, and it took Yiji to recommend Ergou to the emperor.

At that time, the chicken was still called Fang Qi'en, and the dog was called Duan Qiugui.

The two of them grew up together through thick and thin. How could Yiji not think of a solution for Ergou? He gritted his teeth and forced Ergou to squeeze out all the money. He also supplemented his own income over the years and scraped together a total of fifty thousand taels.

The silver was sent to the firearms research and development institute outside the city together with the four thousand taels of silver just sent by the King of England.

He didn't ask the emperor not to know about this, he just hoped that the emperor would not pursue it for the sake of these beastly slaves being reasonably well-behaved.

"Your Majesty, Ergou has worked hard these years..."

Shen Shiqing heard the "dong dong" sound of kowtow, and she lowered her eyes.

According to Zhao Surui's scheming, he must also know that Ergou is secretly greedy for money, but he doesn't care. When one day Ergou becomes the second Zhang Wan, he will definitely kill him and plagiarize Ergou again.

The family wealth is used as military expenses.

"Let Ergou write down every stroke he gets, clearly, and then go to the ceremonial supervisor and receive sixty sticks."

Hearing that the emperor did not directly send the two dogs to feed the tiger, Yiji felt relieved and kowtowed again: "I thank the emperor for the two dogs for sparing his life!"

"I won't pursue it because I have neglected discipline before. But from now on, if you do it again, I will deal with it in accordance with the "Dayong Law"."

"Yes! I have written it down! I have thanked the Emperor! I will let all the eunuchs in the palace remember it!"

After these days, Shen Shiqing still has some trust in Yiji. He is diligent and intelligent, and always takes the emperor's thoughts into consideration. As long as he doesn't become greedy, he can be a good internal official.

Turning around and taking a look at Sanshanmao, who was prostrating himself as a chicken, Shen Shiqing slowly walked back to the bed:

"I have three things to do. First, I want to thoroughly investigate the tribute and accounts of these years. I will send Jin Yiwei down to interrogate all the officials who have dealt with them. No one can be spared regardless of their rank. Second, I want to sort out the accounts of these years.

The accounts of the incoming and outgoing of Taipu Temple will be left to the Ministry of Punishment and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Sixth Section will be handled by the Central Coordinator. Thirdly, I will leave the palace tomorrow and see Chen Shouzhang again."

After the emperor finished saying the first thing he wanted to do, Yi Ji squatted on the ground and didn't dare to move. When he finished talking about the three things, he didn't even dare to breathe. He just prostrated on the ground and buried his head deeply...

Ever since the emperor met Chen Shouzhang and bowed to Chen Shouzhang, Yiji had been worried. Tonight, his worries finally came true.

If I had known this, it would be better to let Chen Shouzhang die.

If he dies, the world can still be peaceful.

Seeing that the chicken was so frightened that it turned into a chicken, Shen Shiqing laughed first.

She knew in her heart that after taking this step, she and the real Emperor Zhaode would completely part ways, and she would definitely die when Emperor Zhaode returned to this body.

But she still has to do it.

She stands here, she sees, she hears, and she will do what she should and can do.

After figuring it out, she felt relieved.

She is Shen Shiqing. Even if she is in the body of an emperor and enjoys the power and luxury of a king, she is still Shen Shiqing.

"Tomorrow morning, you will declare the decree for me."

"...This slave accepts the order."

The rising sun has not yet risen. Under the solemn Fengtian Gate, a chicken was ordered to read out His Majesty's decree.

The whole court was shocked. Several pavilion elders glanced at each other and immediately understood that His Majesty had not discussed this with any of them.

Somehow, Li Congyuan suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. He had been hanging on for more than ten days and finally let go.

It turns out that Your Majesty is not planning to move the capital.

If you think about it carefully, compared to moving the capital which wastes money and people, abolishing a mere tribute is nothing.

The imperial court spends a lot of money on tribute every year. If you can save a fortune, you might be able to use it to do some good things.

As for His Majesty's intention to conduct an inventory of Taipus Temple, Li Congyuan made a mental calculation. The original dispute between the Ministry of War and Taipus Temple was ended when most of the officials of Nan Taipus Temple were dismissed. Now that the accounts are being inspected, old issues will inevitably be stirred up again.

He raised his eyelids.

From the bottom of his heart, he is not opposed to this matter. Taipusi has been used as a money bag by the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of War in recent years. Instead, it has become a tool for covering up their own shortcomings. If they can do an inventory, they might be able to extract some money. come out.

But, is this investigation a major investigation or a small investigation? Is it the investigation that ends at the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Household Affairs? Or is it the investigation of all the holes in the Yong Dynasty from various places to the six ministries over the years?

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a corner of the dragon robe on the golden platform, and Li Congyuan's heart moved.

At this time, he remembered what His Majesty said when he went to give a lecture to His Majesty before the court this morning.

In fact, His Majesty simply asked him a sentence from the Book of Documents.

That sentence is "The human heart is only dangerous, the Taoist heart is only weak; the essence is only one, and the persistence is in the middle.*"

His Majesty, who is only twenty-two this year, is wearing a light crimson straight robe with dragon patterns, which makes his features even more lively. Standing in the East Nuan Pavilion of Qianqing Palace and smelling the unfamiliar and elegant fragrance, Li Congyuan only feels that His Majesty is in his eyes. His appearance had changed from before. He seemed to have become calmer and calmer, but his body had a bit of Yuan Ting Yue Zhi's aura.

Li Congyuan figured it out.

Your Majesty, he wants to conduct a large-scale investigation, or in other words, a thorough investigation.

Holding an ivory wat tablet across his hand, the de facto chief minister of the dynasty bowed and saluted: "Your Majesty, please receive the order."

Seeing the civil and military officials from all over the court salute to her, Shen Shiqing's face showed no expression.

The sky in the distance gradually became dim, and the lamps beside the royal road swayed in the wind.

The sound of distant morning bells resounded throughout Yanjing.

Crows and magpies, startled by the sound of the bell, flew over the golden roof tiles.

The place where the sun reaches may be a distant place that she cannot reach in her life, but she wants to leave her own traces on this land.

"Everyone, since the founding of the Yong Dynasty two hundred years ago, no matter how many holes there are, I dare to look at them. If I want to look at them, I will also dare to kill them. I will kill them. I will tell you the ugly things in front of you. On the first day of October, Those who were able to fill up the deficit before will be given a lighter punishment. If they are found out after October, the "Dayong Law" will be watching over you."

There was silence all around.

Shen Shiqing stood up, flicked her sleeves, turned and left the golden throne.
Chapter completed!