Chapter 2 I am not a foolish emperor, the emperor praised Zhang Gui!

"Why are not you talking?"

After a while, Zhang Guoji suddenly asked.

Zhang Gui continued to remain silent.

Zhang Guoji stood up and looked at Zhang Gui: "You kid, why did you stop talking in the middle of your words?"

"Dad, what do you think of the lyrics for this song?"

Zhang Gui raised his head, smiled, and asked.

Before Zhang Guoji became a relative of the emperor, he was a student of the Imperial College, and his education level was still high, so he said: "This is extraordinary at the beginning, you can continue to talk."

Zhang Gui said: "I have something to trouble my father about."

Zhang Guoji said: "Please finish the words at the end of this song first!"

"Dad helped me do this first, and then I'll talk about the next thing."

Zhang Guidao.

Zhang Guoji waved his hand: "You!"

Zhang Gui hid aside, cupped his hands and said, "Please agree."

Zhang Guoji had nothing to do with Zhang Gui, so he turned to the actors on the stage and shouted: "Stop singing!"

Then, Zhang Guoji asked Zhang Gui: "What's the matter?"

Zhang Gui then told Zhang Guoji what he wanted to do.

"No! Your Majesty just made the civil servants unhappy because of your love for these strange and obscene skills, saying that this will harm the Ming Dynasty. If you do this again, won't you let the civil servants continue to make trouble for you? Say that you harm the Ming Dynasty.

Going to court?! It’s better to live in peace and stay at home.”

Zhang Guoji refused.

"It's as if Your Majesty can get a good reputation among the civil servants if you don't do Lu Ban's things; if I don't do this, they can say good things about our relatives."

Zhang Gui replied.

Zhang Guoji sat back: "I won't agree anyway!"

"It turns out that the colorful flowers are blooming all over the place, but they are all abandoned by the ruined wells and ruins. In good times, the beautiful scenery is beautiful, and it is a joy to the heart."

Zhang Gui then continued to read "Zao Luo Pao".

But when he thought of "pleasant things" and saw Zhang Guoji turning his head again, he stopped and said, "Hey! The lyrics of this piece of music really would have been better if the actors in the mansion had tried it."

Singing it, I really don’t know what a wonderful auditory feast it is.”

Zhang Guoji, who is obsessed with drama, felt like a cat was scratching his heart when he heard Zhang Gui read "Good times and beautiful scenery, but the sky is so beautiful". Now when Zhang Gui said that if people sing, he will become even more addicted to drama.

In addition, he thought that what Zhang Gui said just now, no matter what the emperor and his relatives did, was actually not good in the eyes of the civil servants who took pleasure in criticizing the emperor, relatives, and powerful people, it was indeed reasonable, so he compromised.

, said: "Okay, okay, I promise you!"

So, after Zhang Guoji returned to his study, he wrote the memorial as requested by Zhang Gui, put on his official uniform, left the government, and went to the General Affairs Department to submit the memorial.

According to the system of the Ming Dynasty, when the General Administration Department received the memorial from hundreds of officials, it would be drafted by the cabinet first, and then the Secretary of Ceremonies would report it to the emperor, who would approve it according to the emperor's instructions.

Ye Xianggao, who had just replaced Fang Congzhe as the chief minister of the cabinet, was currently reading the memorial submitted by Zhang Guoji.

Ye Xianggao looked at the memorial and gradually frowned, thinking: "This Zhang Guozhang and his son Zhang Guojiu also use these strange and obscene skills to flatter the emperor!"

As he said that, Ye Xianggao put down his pen, with a look of displeasure in his eyes: "I don't think there is any need for these relatives to stay in the capital. Otherwise, they all only want to please the emperor and completely ignore the emperor's sanctity. They may still be here in the future.

Relying on his status as a royal relative, he caused trouble to Chao Gang."

Therefore, Ye Xianggao decided to reprimand Zhang Guoji and Zhang Gui in Zhang Guoji's memorial, and even ordered Zhang Guoji to take Zhang Gui back to his hometown to study behind closed doors, and not to leave the house without permission to oppress the people.

Ye Xianggao's vote soon arrived with Zhang Guoji's memorial to Wang An, the Chief Priest of the Supervisor of Ceremonies.

At present, Wang An is the first eunuch in the inner court, and Wei Zhongxian has not yet replaced Wang An.

After Wang An got Zhang Guoji's memorial and the cabinet vote, he came to Emperor Tianqi.

Tianqi was sitting on a chair at this time, looking at his carpentry workshop in a daze. He didn't know what to make recently, which meant he had no inspiration.

Tianqi even felt very annoyed because of this.

As soon as he saw Wang An coming, Tianqi said: "You came just in time, can you give me some ideas, what kind of wooden utensils should I make?"

Wang An smiled and said: "Your Majesty can't even think of it. How can I think of it? If I really can't think of it, Your Majesty might as well think of something else."

Tianqi glanced at him and said: "What else can I think of? The country is poor and the people are short, and I can't think of a good way to solve it for the moment. I can only think about whether I can do something that benefits the country and the people. Even if it can't benefit the country and the people, I can't think of anything else."

, at least it must be useful, so that my ordinary day will not be in vain."

As Tianqi spoke, he looked at the servants beside him: "You all think about it, think about what kind of object I can make now! If you can tell me something good, I will reward you!"

The servants agreed and began to think about it one by one.

Wang Anze took this opportunity and said: "Your Majesty, it's better not to let them think about it for now. There happens to be something serious here. Zhang Guozhang has a notebook to report, and the cabinet has already voted to ask for your Majesty's decree."

Tianqi therefore asked: "What did Taishan tell me?"

Wang Andao: "It's just those ridiculous things related to Uncle Guo. Yuanfu Piaoxiang thinks that the father-in-law should take him back to his hometown to study behind closed doors."

Tianqi has always attached great importance to caring about the feelings of his relatives. Now when he heard what Wang An said, he said: "Let them go home. What will the queen do if she misses her family? Besides, haven't I already banned Zhang Gui?"

"Although we are banned, there is no guarantee that after the ban is over, we will not cause trouble for the emperor in the capital and damage his reputation."

Wang An said with a smile.

Tianqi said: "Bring me the memorial and see how absurd it is. If it is as you said, Zhang Gui is very naughty and my Taishan is confused, I will go and give it to you."

Let the queen talk and ask the queen to persuade them to return home."

Wang An was a little hesitant. He knew that the current emperor really loved carpentry and did not respect Confucianism and rationality like the late emperor. If he handed over this memorial, it would definitely play into Zhang Gui's hands, so he smiled and said: "Your Majesty

It’s better not to watch it, I’m afraid it will hurt your harmony.”

The harmony Wang An refers to refers to the harmony between Tianqi and his courtiers.

"There's no reason why you shouldn't show me the memorial! Whether it hurts your kindness or not, I know the right balance!"

Tianqi frowned and said, "Bring it here!"

Wang An then handed it over.

But he didn't want Zhang Gui to win the emperor's heart by showing off his strange and obscene skills, so he slandered him from the side: "The emperor's sage is unparalleled. You must know it after reading this memorial.

The uncle asked the father-in-law to read this book, obviously because he wanted to please the emperor."

"First of all, this intention is not right! Secondly, if he does not warn him in his memorial, it will naturally be difficult to prove His Majesty's integrity, which will make the civil servants in other dynasties feel that the emperor is not in charge of the country and did not promptly warn his relatives of his flattery.

That's why Yuan Fu drafted the vote like this."

Tianqi smiled coldly, and before opening the memorial, he asked: "As you said, do my relatives have to go against me to be good relatives?"

After hearing this, Wang An hurriedly knelt on the ground: "That's not what I meant! I just wanted to analyze for the emperor why Yuan Fu made such a move."

"I am not a foolish king!"

Tianqi asked, "Do you still need to remind me?"

Wang An replied: "Yes! It was the old slave who made a mistake."

"Get up. I know what you are thinking. You are deeply afraid that I will lose my ambition by playing with things, and you are also afraid that snobbish people will take the opportunity to flatter me. But I am not a person who cannot distinguish between good and evil. Even because I am the emperor, many people in the world vote for me.

As for me, I can also tell whether the intentions here are good or bad!"

"If Zhang Guizhen encourages me to do some ridiculous things on Mount Tai, I will educate him well."

As Tianqi spoke, he opened the memorial and read it carefully.

At this sight, Tianqi looked in.

"Okay! Very good! How did he think of it?!"
Chapter completed!