"The patrol battalion's movements are neat, which shows that you are well-organized." Lu Mingwei praised.
"Father, you are so complimentary. I am just doing my best for my father. I really don't dare to be praised by my father," Lu Zhicheng said hurriedly, paused, and continued, "It's just that the position of Minister of the Ministry of Revenue is currently vacant. Therefore, I had to make the handover with Xu Qingzhou, the Minister of Household Affairs. I heard that my father asked Xu Qingzhou to take care of the affairs of the Household Department temporarily. "
Lu Mingwei took a sip of tea, looked at Lu Zhishan calmly, and said slowly: "Cheng'er, what do you think of Xu Qingzhou?"
Lu Zhicheng thought for a while and then said: "Returning to my father, I have not been in the court for a long time, so I am not familiar with Mr. Xu, but I have heard that Mr. Xu has always done things quickly and is also known to be beautiful in the court. Name, I had a handover with Mr. Xu this morning. I was not familiar with many of the details of the procedures. Mr. Xu also mentioned them one by one. He was very careful and conscientious. I benefited a lot from him, so I felt that Mr. Xu Very good.”
Lu Mingwei raised his eyebrows and looked at Lu Zhicheng: "All the ministers in the court said that Xu Qingzhou was born in the Xu family, so he was not qualified for the important position of the household department. Why didn't Cheng'er take it seriously?"
"Returning to my father, I have just entered the court with no qualifications, but I feel that a hero does not need to be born," Lu Zhicheng said respectfully, "Moreover, although the Xu family is in decline now, in the end, it is Empress Zhuang Shengxian and Empress Chunxiao It would be a pity if our mother's family, a century-old noble family, collapsed like this. Long live the reincarnation of the Xu family's descendants, which also comforted the spirits of Queen Zhuang Shengxian and Queen Chunxiao, so I think there is nothing wrong with it. "
Lu Mingwei curled his lips slightly: "You are much more sensible than that old pedant."
"Thank you, Father." Lu Zhicheng said.
"I heard that you went to the entrance of Yuqing Palace to kowtow to Concubine Li a few days ago." Lu Mingwei took a sip of tea and asked casually.
"Yes, the twenty-eighth day of the first lunar month is my concubine's birthday," Lu Mingwei mentioned Concubine Li coldly. For a moment, Lu Zhicheng felt like he was sweating all over his body. He held his breath and said carefully, "Mother. The concubine did indeed do something wrong, and the emperor banned the mother and concubine for this reason. This is all right, but after all, the mother and concubine gave birth to children, and the children, as sons of human beings, should be grateful to the mother and concubine for giving birth to children, so they went to kowtow to express gratitude to the mother and concubine on her birthday. , I am just doing my duty as a son of man."
Lu Mingwei didn't answer, but he opened another memorial and read it slowly. He was speechless for a while. For a while, the room in the royal study could be heard in silence. Lu Zhicheng felt that he was sweating even more, and his knees He felt weak and was so busy that he knelt down and kowtowed: "My son, I was wrong, please forgive me!"
"You are right. No matter how big a mistake Ms. Li makes, she is still your mother in the end. It is reasonable for you to kowtow to her and pay her respects. I have no intention of blaming you. In the past, when the late emperor was alive, he was also the most important person. The way of benevolence and filial piety," Lu Mingwei took a sip of tea and said calmly, "Okay, you can go down."
Lu Zhicheng breathed a sigh of relief, but did not get up. He still knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times to Lu Mingwei respectfully.
Lu Mingwei raised his eyebrows: "Is there anything else?"
"No... nothing else," Lu Zhicheng said cautiously while looking at Lu Mingwei's expression, "Princess Linglong is still in confinement and cannot enter the palace, so at the beginning of the new year, I am here to give you a gift on behalf of the princess. Father, I kowtow in greeting."