Man Bao waved his hand indifferently and said: "We are not military generals, so there is no need to remember this little credit."
Master Tang let out a "Yo" and said with a smile: "This is the achievement of siege, don't you think less of such a small achievement?"
The three of them grimaced, "Brother, don't make fun of us, Your Majesty is still angry with us, and I don't know if Yushitai has recorded our mistakes and is waiting to punish us."
Tang He laughed and said, "It turns out that you also know that there is something wrong."
He stopped short, and didn't give them a hard lesson. After thinking for a moment, he said, "I don't know about other people, but my father doesn't bother to care about such trivial matters here. Does Your Majesty have the heart to pursue it?"
"It doesn't matter even if you pursue it," Tang He said with a smile: "The big deal is to offset your merits and demerits."
Three people: ...
The courtiers were also waiting to see whether the emperor was mostly angry or appreciative. Therefore, when the seal was opened on the first day of the eighth day, and everyone cheered to the court meeting, except for New Year greetings, no one took the initiative to ask the wrong mission.
Instead, Man Bao took the initiative to report the results of the trip to the Western Regions, mainly the results of the vaccinia planting experiment.
Xiao Yuan is taking the opportunity to propose to do vaccination experiments in the Huangzhuang in the suburbs, and still in the Huangzhuang that was tested last year.
The emperor agreed, and asked the Ministry of Households to allocate a sum of money to the Tai Hospital.
This time the Ministry of Household Affairs did not call them poor, they have already gone ninety-nine steps, spent so much money to go out, and have all the prescriptions, and now they are just short of the last step of the test, so naturally they will not be stingy with money.
The household department agreed immediately, and the meeting was a little quiet, and no one spoke for a while.
The emperor raised his eyelids to look at them, and asked, "Why, there are no scriptures to play? After the new year, everyone is safe and sound."
The ministers lowered their heads slightly and did not speak.
Man Bao looked left and right, but still went out with his heart in his hands, bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I'm guilty."
"Well, I see, I received your letter of apology early in the morning, why is it only you, and the others?"
Man Bao knelt down, and the guards took orders to go out and call the others in.
Although Bai Shan and the others squeezed into the mission without permission, since they have already become a member of the mission and signed the paper together, they naturally have to follow them into the palace. If the emperor wants to hear their confession in person, they can also go in. Acknowledge your mistake.
But I didn't expect it to be so fast, it only took half an hour to come out and call for someone.
Several people looked at each other and could only enter the hall.
Mr. Zhuang, who was at the end of the Grand Court Meeting, also came out and knelt down with Man Bao to admit his mistake to the emperor, saying that they were guilty of delaying a lot of time on their return journey and keeping the emperor and the court waiting for a long time.
Seeing that they all knelt down and confessed their mistakes honestly, the emperor felt better, so he asked Wei Zhi, "How do Wei Qing think they should be punished?"
Wei Zhi thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, it was winter at that time, and the road from Shazhou to the capital was mostly a place of bitter cold. I don't think they stopped on purpose to delay time. The mountains were blocked by heavy snow, or the road was difficult. It's a normal thing."
He said: "After all, the mission is not an army, and it will not march in a hurry like General Ashina, so it is normal for the journey to be slower."
Usually, the farther the imperial court sends a mission, the less time it requires.
It is normal for a mission to come back after two or three years, let alone a year, or even seven or eight years. As long as the chief officer of the mission does not surrender to the Lord, he is basically a qualified messenger.
Wei Zhi didn't want the court to pursue this matter too much, otherwise the mission's time would be too demanding, and the freedom of missions in the future would be greatly affected.
So he said: "I think that although they are wrong, they are not guilty. Since they know their mistakes, Your Majesty might as well reprimand them."
It means that you can just scold them, and there is no need to punish them. What if the mission goes out in the future because of this matter, what should I do
emperor:…
Old Master Tang also has this intention, but he feels that these children are too playful and naughty. If they let go of them gently, they might be playful and disregard the government in the future, so they should be more serious.
The emperor looked at the others.
The officials who wanted to impeach Zhou Man and the others hesitated for a while in objection and pretending to be deaf and dumb, then quietly raised their heads to look at the emperor's face, then silently put down the papers in their hands, and did not come out for impeachment.
Those who didn't wink wanted to go out, but they were used to following the trend, and now there were no big trees blocking their way, and there were no small branches, so they didn't dare to stand out.
The emperor hummed softly in his heart, feeling that the officials were not upright at all.
Especially Wei Zhi, who provoked his faults in an orderly manner, even if a hair fell on the ground, he would be recited for a long time, Zhou Man and the others still gave them excuses for wasting so much time on the road.
Thanks to the missions, if they marched to fight a war, he would definitely kill them in such a hurry.
But thinking so much in his heart, the emperor still nodded in agreement with kindness on his face, "What Wei Qing said is true, since you know you made a mistake, you can't do it again next time."
Man Bao breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately bowed his head with everyone.
The emperor ordered the table and reached out to pick up another booklet, "General Ashina said that you have made great achievements in this western expedition, especially Zhou Man and Bai Shan, you two are the first to capture the King City of Kucha. , is there anything you want?"
The emperor had asked them this question privately in his study before, and now he asked them again in front of the courtiers at the court meeting, obviously the meaning was different.
This time, everyone expressed that as the emperor, it was their duty to serve the court, and they did not ask for rewards.
Man Bao said sweetly, "If you do it again, I will do the same."
The emperor complained in his heart, but it was done again, one time was enough to embarrass him, he prepared the reward early and waited, praised and praised people in front of all the officials, but the result was that the left waiter did not arrive, and the right waited also not.
But there is still some joy in my heart.
The emperor got serious, and handed another drafted letter to Gu Zhong, and said: "Although you delayed the return journey and made some mistakes, you should still be rewarded for the siege. Zhou Man and Bai Shan are the leaders. Promoted Zhou Man to Chongwen Museum from the fourth rank to compile, and bestowed on Bai Shanjue the county son... "
The emperor was too lazy to read too much, so he gave Gu Zhong a wink, and Gu Zhong unfolded the scriptures for them to read, bestowing Bai Shan as county magistrate, Bai Cheng and Liu Huan as county males, adding Yin or as county magistrates, bestowing a mansion, and promoting them Compiled by Zhuang Xun for Wupin, each will be given twenty taels of silver and six bolts of cloth...
When Man Bao and the others heard it, they raised their heads slightly in surprise. They thought it would be nice to have a reward, but they didn't expect to have a title.
But this reward is less than I thought.
After Gu Zhong finished reading the scriptures, all the officials exhaled at the same time, and then looked sympathetically at the few people kneeling in the middle of the hall.