The emperor angrily swept the mountains of memorials on the table to the ground, and swept the wide sleeves of his robes, sweeping away the dust on them.
"Idiots, they are all idiots one by one, they can't even do this little thing well, what do I want you to do?!"
All the ministers in the imperial study knelt down, only seeing the official caps on their heads and their trembling buttocks. Because the head is lying on the ground tightly, the buttocks are relatively high.
Immediately afterwards, there was a burst of begging, but none of them were begging for themselves, everything was for the sake of the "dragon body".
"The emperor calm down, don't hurt the dragon's body..."
"The emperor calm down, the dragon body is important..."
The emperor was so angry that he almost lost his temper. Damn it, isn't it all because of these useless ministers with "hamstrings".
In the past two years of floods in the south and drought in the north, there have been many disasters. He thinks that he should allocate funds, food relief, and pensions... But these guys who are the pillars of the country have demolished him one by one.
You want to embezzle taxes, okay, let you embezzle. As the saying goes, when the water is clear, there will be no fish. He turns a blind eye, as long as the root is not hurt.
You put your paws on the military pay, but he didn't say anything. They were all taken from the peasants, as long as they were given a bowl of rice, they would not leave.
Even after depriving the food for disaster relief, under the collusion and evasion of a group of "officials", I felt uncomfortable. After all, it was a matter of affecting the whole body, and those so-called royal relatives were all involved.
But can these guys have a bottom line? You have stripped all the food for disaster relief, what do you let those victims eat? And after death, who will work on the farmland as cattle and horses
Each of them seemed very shrewd, setting up all kinds of tricks, thinking that he, the emperor, would not be able to see it.
Wrong, it's just that he doesn't want to move. After all, his emperor was built on these aristocratic classes.
He just wants these people to have a bottom line, is it that difficult? !
Almost all the memorials piled up on the table came from all over the country—peasant rebellion.
In Qingyuan County, a large-scale peasant army has been formed, and Sucheng has been captured, with a population of more than 400,000. The surrounding peasant army also responded one after another...
Now it is no longer possible to appease them with just a little food, and it is necessary to send troops to suppress them.
But at this juncture, everyone clamored verbally to suppress those troublemakers, but no one was willing to stand up and join the army.
Everyone knows how to fill their own pockets, eat and wait for death, and blame each other.
Ouch, I'm so pissed off.
Eunuch Zhang quickly supported the swaying emperor, patted his back, and comforted him in a shrill voice: "The emperor calms down, be careful of the dragon's body."
Dragon body, dragon body, tm dragon body, it is obviously a human body but it is said to be a dragon body. If it's really a dragon, just spray a torch and burn them all.
The emperor sat back on the dragon chair and asked: "If you don't come up with a way for me to come out today, don't go back to eat. When will you come out, and when will you go back!"
Everyone wailed again, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty" yelled for a long time.
The emperor simply took a sip of the ginseng soup that the concubine made for him, moistened his throat, and reclined on the chair. Eunuch Zhang hurriedly took a cushion and put it on his waist, and then began to beat his legs...
Seeing this, the ministers looked at each other, this, this... If it was before, they would definitely say that "the emperor should look like an emperor", but it is obvious that this time the emperor was very angry. Besides, I am afraid it is true. In a fit of rage, he lost his head.
A group of people muttered for a long time... In fact, who doesn't understand those truths, "Water can carry a boat or capsize it".
But the problem is that they feel that they have trampled those lowly farts on the ground and buried them in the soil. Usually, they want to kill them, just like trampling an ant to death. Why did they suddenly become so terrifying? Where did he have the courage to dare to rebel? !
Tsk, it seems that the "tribute" received this year will be greatly reduced, so, if I want to buy land, buy famous actors... I will be stretched again...
Alas, it's all those damn restless troublemakers!
You said you planted your land well, why are you talking nonsense together? (Troublemaker: No land to grow, no food to eat...)
Cao Zhongtang straightened his body slightly, glanced at the person on the dragon chair secretly, and said cautiously: "Your Majesty...my minister, there is a way..."
The emperor was depressed, he just waited for these vassal ministers to come up with a solution, "Say it, what is the solution?"
Cao Zhongtang considered his words, and said: "Now that rebels are everywhere in the country, and several countries on the border are also ready to move, it is natural not to mobilize the soldiers guarding the border at this time..."
Hearing this, the emperor angrily picked up a few booklets and smashed them over: "Who said I'm going to mobilize the troops on the border?"
Damn, now that there are internal and external troubles, is he crazy to bring in the border guards to suppress the peasant rebels
Cao Zhongtang: "What I mean is that we can adopt the method of suppressing and raising. We can recruit some of them and then deal with the other part..."
It's a good idea to use one's spear to attack another's shield, but the question is, who is a fool who is willing to be their pawn and let them be at their mercy
Cao Zhongtang: "I heard that the leaders of the rebels in Maocheng are two women, and one of them came out of the palace... At that time, I just want to wrong the emperor and give her a position. Anyway, I can't escape a gang..."
The emperor narrowed his eyes slightly. When he saw the information about the rebels from various places, he vaguely felt that the woman looked familiar, and he always felt that he had seen it somewhere.
At this moment, after hearing what Cao Zhongtang said, I finally remembered that it was the court lady who smashed the guard to death with a stove and escaped within two days after being punished by Xin Zheku!
Thinking about it, it really didn't cost a single soldier. You only need to give that woman a "status" to gain the power of an entire city, which is very cost-effective.
The ideal is very full, and the emperor knows very well that the maid is not simple, otherwise she would not use death escape to escape from the palace. But no matter what, first put your "position" there.
Then we discussed for a while, those places can be appeased, and those places should send troops to suppress... After the deployment, Cao Zhongtang was sent to Maocheng to read the imperial edict.
Who said he came up with this bad idea? Of course let him issue the imperial decree.
... With the sound of gongs and drums all the way, the mighty imperial envoy arrived in Maocheng.
Surrounded by a large group of people watching the excitement, after all, it is rare to see these "ministers" in a lifetime.
This is the effect Cao Zhongtang wants, whether it is "the two countries are at war without beheading the envoy" or "stretching out and not hitting the smiling face", the other party can't play tricks on him.
As long as the imperial decree is issued, the so-called saint is actually just a woman of the emperor, and naturally everything here belongs to the emperor.