The official was threatening him, but Yan Li didn't care! She curled her lips, and there was a slight mark on the left corner of her mouth, which seemed to be a slight crease on the clothes.
"I, Yan Li, keep my word. If the emperor blames me, you can just say that I will bear the burden."
The official sent a snort, then gave Yan Li a fistful, and his voice was strange.
"Since this is the case, I can rest assured! I still have a lot of work to do, so I won't accompany the prime minister."
Before he finished speaking, he swaggered around, whipped his whip in his hand, and shouted at the strong men who were working: "Show some strength, okay? Don't be like a woman! If you are lazy, be careful, I will whip you!"
After a day, Yan Li saw more than these few things! Could it be blood and tears to see, could it be complaints and tears to hear. When he returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion in the evening, he wrote a memorial overnight. In the morning court the next day, I handed it to Eunuch Liu at the court meeting. Eunuch Liu handed the memorial to Li Hai again.
Li Hai already had suspicions about Yan Li in his heart, so he didn't read the memorial, but when he saw it, Long Yan was furious, and his eyebrows flew up. He threw the memorial on the ground.
"Yan Li, what evidence do you have for saying that I built a temple for the Empress Dowager to waste people's money and waste people's money, and to anger people?"
Li Hai's anger was written all over his face, and many ministers were sweating for Yan Li.
Yan Li was unmoved, walked out of the train and bowed deeply, "Your Majesty, I was walking on the street yesterday and saw many people displaced because of building temples, and some were injured, maimed, or even killed by the supervisors! A project of blood and tears, it doesn’t matter if you don’t do it.”
"Bold!" The loud voice made the hearts of every courtier jump into their throats, "I asked you to preside over the Spring Whip Spring Ceremony, but why did you take care of the construction of the temple? I can make you foolish right now." Charged with discussing government affairs, sent to Yushitai for interrogation."
Li Hai paused, and then cursed, "What you see are just some thugs! They are used to living in peace and quiet, and have a lazy body. If they are asked to do a little work, they will cry and shout in disgrace! For troublemakers like this, the best way is to take them into prison and let them have a good meal and reflect on themselves!"
Li Hai has already received a report saying that Yan left the construction site to hinder him and released the young man without authorization. Li Hai was very angry when he heard this, but because of Rong Changan, he didn't dare to do anything to Yan Li.
Why did Li Hai want to build a temple for the Queen Mother? It's just to please her and make her relatives happy and relieve their doubts. Therefore, this time the temple Li Hai will be built taller and more luxurious than any other in the imperial capital. He also asked craftsmen to mold a huge statue of the Queen Mother with gold and put it in the temple for worship.
If other ministers gave Li Hai a memorial to stop the project this time, he could still talk about it, and then discuss with the Queen Mother to reduce the scale of the project. But now that Yan Li was presenting the memorial, Li Hai couldn't be bothered.
"Your Majesty, if you don't believe what I said and think that those who are troubled are troublemakers, your Majesty can go to Huairenli with me to have a look."
Yan Li had already planned to go all out and speak for those people who lost their land and houses. Even if Li Hai imprisoned him in Yushitai again, he would not be afraid.
Li Hai clapped his bony hands on the case, his scarlet eyes looked like a wolf, as if he wanted to bite Yan Li to death one by one.
"A gentleman does something, but he doesn't do something. If I stop the project just because of those troublemakers, how will this country continue to operate in the future? Then nothing can be done!"
There were also ministers who responded to Li Hai, "The emperor is here to celebrate the Queen Mother's birthday this time. This is filial piety. The so-called filial piety touches the sky. How can it be angry? Prime Minister Yan, is what you said a little too much?"
From the corner of Yan Li's eyes, he glanced at the official next to him who was fawning on Li Hai, with a flattering face and a smile on the corner of his mouth; the starting point of these officials is not the common people, but themselves.
Yan Li said: "Your Majesty, it's time for spring plowing. We should liberate the strong men to return to the farmland, plow and farm, and look forward to a good harvest in the coming year. If the harvest is not good, the people will be hungry. Once the people are hungry, they will rise up and make trouble. It’s in danger.”
Li Hai thought to himself, if I agreed to Yan Li today, where would the imperial prestige be? In the future, he will be stumbling over everything he does.
"Yan Li, I think you have sinister intentions!" said the official who flattered Li Hai.
Li Hai shot at the official with encouraging eyes, telling him to speak boldly.
Yan Li trembled slightly, and stared at the official coldly, "Excuse me, why did Yan Li have evil intentions?"
The corner of Li Hai's mouth parted with a trace of pride, and this trace came all the way to the root of his ear, which looked like a scar.
"You kept saying that it was for the sake of the common people, and you blatantly stopped the progress of the project at the construction site. The purpose was to please those unscrupulous people, thinking that it was for your own use..." The official's eyes showed ferociousness.
A trace of horror flashed across Yan Li's face, "What do you mean by that? I, Yan Li, only care about the common people. How can I use it to please the bad people?"
The official snorted coldly, "Why Prime Minister Yan wants to please these common people, the hidden purpose behind it is unknown!"
Yan Li hastily explained to Li Hai: "Your Majesty, I didn't intend to please the common people and use it for myself..."
The official had already said it was obvious that Yan Li wanted to buy people's hearts and plot evil.
Li Hai touched the handle of the faucet with his fingers, and squeezed the faucet tightly, as if it was Yan Li's neck.
He looked at Yan Li sternly: "Prime Minister Yan, if you don't mean that, what do you mean? I estimate that all the citizens in Huairenli only know that there is Prime Minister Yan Li, but they don't know that there is Li Hai. Emperor, is it right? You can’t tell when the day will come. The people of Dajing Kingdom only know that there is a prime minister named Yan Li, but they don’t know that there is an emperor named Li Hai! Yan Li, are you trying to cause such an impact? "
The atmosphere was very serious, Li Hai could have arrested Yan Li under such circumstances and sentenced him to death immediately.
Yan Li quickly prostrated himself on the ground, kneeling three times and prostrating nine times.
"Your Majesty, I have no such intentions. It is purely for the betterment of the people's lives. Please check it out!"
Li Hai licked his teeth, sharply looked at Yan Li whose head was almost parallel to the ground, and a smug smile flashed across his face.
"Yan Li, since I promised to build a temple for the Empress Dowager, I will not change my mind. If you continue to intercede with those unruly people and obstruct the progress of the project, I can behead you at any time! Do you want to try my determination? "
If Li Hai really loses face and hurts Huang Wei, Li Hai won't care about Rong Chang'an anymore, and will cut Yan Li off first!
"Your Majesty, please think twice..." Yan Li's hoarse voice passed down the ground into Li Hai's ears.
Li Hai snorted coldly, flung his sleeves and left.
Facing all the officials, Eunuch Liu said loudly: "Come here early today, retreat!" He followed closely behind the angry Li Hai.
Perhaps because he was too angry, when Li Hai walked out of the hall, he tripped over the threshold and almost fell.
"You bastard, even the threshold is here to fight against me!" Li Haifen glared angrily at the threshold that had been walking for so many years, "Eunuch Liu, immediately send someone to take down the threshold! Everything that blocks me must be swept away!"
Yan Li locked himself in the room when he came back from the morning court. Since he can't save the common people of the Li people, what is he still doing as an official? This is tantamount to irony, huge irony!
He took off the purple court clothes, folded them, put them in a lacquered wooden box, and put the crown belt in it, as well as the jade belt, court boots, jade pendants, and the prime minister's seal, all of which he had to seal up. .
"Since you can't save the people, why don't you distribute the boats!"
Yan Li locked the lacquered wooden box, and then drank for himself. Now only wine can relieve his inner depression.