mesbooks Chapter 21: I Offended the King of Qin and Still Want to Leave
Chapter 21: I Offended the King of Qin and Still Want to Leave
"Tang Haws! Delicious Tang Haws!"
"Steamed buns, hot steamed buns!"
……
Downstairs from Tianxiang Building, the bustling street is full of breakfast stalls, and it is very lively with people coming and going.
Generally speaking, the morning court session starts at five in the morning. If the emperor does not have any special circumstances to deal with, the custom is to leave the court at seven in the morning.
The ministers could still endure for two hours.
After the morning court session, I had breakfast and drank tea, then went to work at the department.
But today...
Apparently, things are not going well in the court!
Faced with the increasing number of disaster victims in the royal capital, the empress asked her ministers what to do?
How to do?
What else can we do? Open warehouses to provide disaster relief, and then resume production little by little.
Unfortunately, no one dares to raise this question, and the reason is very simple...
The national treasury is empty! What are you going to use to provide disaster relief?
Seeing that the ministers were silent, the empress asked Ye Xianggao directly, "You are the Prime Minister! What do you think we should do?"
Ye Xianggao was able to rise step by step from a minor official to the chief minister of the cabinet of Da Qi. How could he have earned his reputation in vain?
When others were at their wits' end, he directly proposed, "Let the merchants in the capital donate generously, open porridge shops, and help the victims!"
Hmm! Very good, very good!
But the empress had an idea. She thought that asking merchants to donate alone was not enough. She thought that officials should also participate. If each official donated 10,000 taels of silver, that would be 1 million taels!
You're terrible, you're really terrible!
It is already extremely difficult to get money from merchants, and she actually wants to squeeze some more money out of these officials. What a joke!
For a moment, all the officials complained and said that they had no money!
I am so poor that I have to patch up my clothes. If Your Majesty insists on having silver, then you can sell me and see how much I can be worth.
The empress was furious, but she didn't dare to lash out. She could only stare at the Prime Minister Ye Xianggao, hoping that he would "know the current affairs and be a hero" and set an example!
Ye Xianggao could not bear the emperor's gaze any longer, so he stood out from the team and first expressed his determination, speaking passionately and fiercely.
then……
When it came to the specific amount of donations, the chief minister of the cabinet donated... ten taels of silver!
The empress's face turned pale with anger. During this court meeting, one person donated dozens of taels of silver...
The empress had to donate three thousand taels of silver!
Who the hell are you humiliating?
The emperor was furious, but the officials were shameless. "My salary is meager, and I have a family to support! If Your Majesty insists on asking for money, please tear down my house when I get home!"
You see, this is called "every policy has its own countermeasure."
The Empress had no way to deal with these shameless ministers, and finally had no choice but to...
I can only leave with a lot of anger!
On the way back from court, Ye Xianggao was particularly happy and sat cheerfully in the sedan chair.
Even though the empress was high above the emperor, she was still just a woman after all. How could she fight against these "old foxes"?
Soon, the cabinet's chief minister's sedan chair arrived at Tianxiang Tower. The housekeeper whispered, "Master, we're at Tianxiang Tower! Do you need breakfast?"
Ye Xianggao touched his belly and found it was growling with hunger.
He called out, "Dinner!"
The butler next to him immediately shouted, "Stop the sedan!"
The two sedan bearers stopped moving and waited for the Prime Minister to come out, but as soon as a "turtle head" came out, Ye Xianggao actually sat back down.
housekeeper:"???"
"The court just donated money, and I've already donated all my wealth. Now I'm showing up at Tianxianglou! It's a bit awkward! Forget it, let's go! I won't have breakfast at Tianxianglou tonight."
Ye Xianggao is really an old fox!
The court had just collected donations today, and all the officials were crying poor. If they ate and drank lavishly in Tianxiang Tower after the morning court session, it would probably cause unnecessary trouble.
The butler replied, "I understand!"
He called the sedan bearers, and the two of them were about to leave after carrying the sedan.
But no one noticed...
At Tianxiang Tower, Li Jize, who was sitting by the window, stood up like a lunatic, raised his right hand, and swung it down suddenly!
You want to leave after offending the King of Qin?
The old bastard, he was the culprit who took the lead in saying "The King of Qin should be executed" in the court!
After waiting for so long, Li Jize was waiting for him, and now he is here! Either leave the silver or leave your head.
really……
After seeing King Qin's right hand suddenly swing down, Chen Xiaodao and others who had been lurking nearby understood!
This is the signal for action! The person in this sedan chair is the target of their kidnapping.
Immediately, Chen Xiaodao gave a wink, and a younger brother dressed as a beggar rushed forward.
It hit a sedan chair bearer right on target, and the bearer lost his balance and fell to the ground.
The housekeeper was so frightened that he held onto the sedan chair, turned around, looked at the beggar covered in mud, and cursed: "You stinky beggar! You are blind! Don't you see whose sedan chair this is? You have offended my master! Don't you want to live?"
The beggar tugged at the butler's sleeve and cried out pitifully, "Master! Please give me something to eat!"
I was just angry at first, but after the beggar's dirty hands touched my silk clothes, leaving a few dirty handprints...
The old housekeeper was so furious that he raised his hand and slapped the beggar, knocking him to the ground. Then, he called out to the two sedan chair bearers, "Damn it! Beat this stupid beggar to death!"
The sedan bearers stopped carrying the sedan and rushed forward to beat and kick the beggar.
but……
None of the three of them noticed that an uninvited guest took advantage of this opportunity to lift the curtain and get into the sedan.
The person who went in was none other than Chen Xiaodao!
Originally, Ye Xianggao was resting with his eyes closed. Even when he heard the servants outside beating the beggars, he never opened his eyes.
Until the sedan chair was opened and a person got in, he opened his eyes and just wanted to see what was going on...
A dagger flashing with cold light was directly pointed at the old man's neck!
Ye Xianggao was terrified. He asked coldly, "Who are you? Do you know who I am?"
Chen Xiaodao grinned and replied, "The Prime Minister of the current cabinet, Ye Xianggao!"
Ok?
Ye Xianggao was stunned, his eyes widened, his face full of disbelief.
"In that case, you know I'm the Prime Minister, but do you know the consequences of doing this? Aren't you afraid of having your entire family executed?"
Chen Xiaodao pushed the dagger in his hand closer to Ye Xianggao's neck, scaring him so much that he gasped.
"The whole family has already starved to death, what else is there to worry about? Lord Prime Minister, if you cooperate, I will guarantee your safety! If not, I will show you the "Three Knives and Six Eyes" today!"