The next day, the right minister was invited to the imperial study by Liu Xiangyang, the deputy head of the eunuch after his next court.
Then, the right minister stayed inside for a full hour.
It is said that when the right prime minister comes out, people instantly seem to have aged a few years.
Of course, this is just a rumor.
An hour later, Shi Qingzhou returned to Kunning Palace, Long Xiaoyuan had been waiting there for a long time, and when he saw someone coming back, he hurried up to greet him.
"The light boat is back?"
Shi Qingzhou nodded. "Well. The right minister will take office tomorrow."
"Haha, I knew it, there must be no problem in handing it over to Qingzhou! That's great!"
Shi Qingzhou rolled his eyes, and Long Xiaoyuan pressed his shoulder on the other side doggy. "Qingzhou, are you tired?"
Shi Qingzhou squinted at the other party. "fine."
"Breakfast is ready, Qingzhou, let's go eat."
Shi Qingzhou nodded, "OK."
The dog-legged waiter on Shi Qingzhou After breakfast, Long Xiaoyuan and Shi Qingzhou spent half a day processing the memorial.
In the afternoon, the two left the palace.
It's not for going out of the palace to play, but mainly because Shi Qingzhou wants to go home and see his mother.
Long Xiaoyuan thought that since the memorials had been approved anyway, since the Grand Prince's case was related to Muzar's case, they had already been handed over to the new Minister of Punishment, Hu Qingyuan, to handle.
Since his queen believed in Hu Qingyuan's strength, it was also a good time to see how strong the other party was.
Therefore, Shi Qingzhou was going to her mother's house, Long Xiaoyuan had nothing to do, so naturally he didn't want to stay in the palace alone, so he went with him!
"Qingzhou, let's just go back empty-handed, okay?" Along the way, Long Xiaoyuan was struggling with this problem.
Shi Qingzhou said a third time: "It's okay, there is nothing missing at home."
Long Xiaoyuan was still a little confused. "Otherwise, shall we bring something to eat?"
Shi Qingzhou was helpless, and felt a little funny seeing Long Xiaoyuan's appearance, and couldn't help but said: "Why do you want to bring something?"
"Isn't this a matter of course? How can a son-in-law come to see his mother-in-law without bringing anything! Ah... no." Long Xiaoyuan laughed dryly. "Son-in-law, son-in-law."
Shi Qingzhou rolled his eyes. "You know your identity yourself, but my mother is afraid that I won't be able to bear it."
"How could it be!" Long Xiaoyuan's brows were knit together. "I'm such a good person!"
Shi Qingzhou: "..." I've never seen someone with such a thick skin!
In the end, Long Xiaoyuan still brought some food.
They were two boxes of snacks, not brought out from the palace, but bought in a big restaurant in the imperial city outside.
Carrying snacks, Long Xiaoyuan and Shi Qingzhou passed by talking and laughing all the way.
"Hey, what's the matter with you, I've said it all, this is the General's Mansion, not a place you can enter casually! You hurry up, didn't I give you two steamed buns?"
"That's right, don't block the door like this, okay? If you want food, please go to a place next to it? It's hard for us to do it if you block it like this. The steamed buns are also given to you. What else do you want?"
Long Xiaoyuan and Shi Qingzhou looked at each other, Shi Qingzhou frowned and stepped forward. "How is this going?"
The gatekeeper was startled when he saw Shi Qingzhou, and then hurriedly knelt down to pay his respects.
"The queen is a thousand years old."
Shi Qingzhou frowned again. "Okay, let's all get up."
The two gatekeepers stood up tremblingly.
Shi Qingzhou said lightly: "What's going on?"
What Shi Qingzhou asked was, of course, the middle-aged man on the ground who was already invisible.
Just as the concierge was about to say something, the middle-aged man suddenly raised his head, and then looked at Shi Qingzhou in disbelief, and then he flew over, but the man didn't jump at Shi Qingzhou, but flew at Shi Qingzhou. In front of Qingzhou, kneel down.
"Queen, queen, save the people of Quanzhou!"
Shi Qingzhou was taken aback, and Long Xiaoyuan who came after him was also taken aback.
"You are..." Shi Qingzhou looked hesitantly at the middle-aged man on the ground.
The middle-aged man burst into tears. "Queen Qi, the next official is Quanzhou county magistrate, Xu Yang. Queen, save the people of Quanzhou, otherwise... the people of Quanzhou will perish!"
Shi Qingzhou immediately became serious when he heard this. "You come in with me first, what's going on, you tell me clearly."
"Yes." The middle-aged man was brought in by Shi Qingzhou, while Long Xiaoyuan said to the empty space, "Go and invite the right minister."
"Yes." There was a reply from a place where there was no one, which made people feel a little panicked.
The two gatekeepers looked at each other for a while, feeling a little scared.
The speed of the shadow guard is very fast, the right minister's house is not too far from Shi Qingshan's general's mansion, the shadow guard's lightness skills are high, naturally he arrived at the right minister's home very quickly.
At that time, Prime Minister Right was thinking in the study, because the old fox had already felt something because of the meeting between the Royal Study and Empress Shi Qingzhou in the morning.
He has two choices now, obey, then he is still the prime minister, even if the power is emptied in the future, the glory will still be there in his life.
The second option is to use the forces you have cultivated over the years to resist.
However, this second choice seems easy, but since ancient times, how many courtiers have really fought against the emperor
The courtiers who can fight more than the emperors, those emperors are fatuous, manipulated by others, and the power in the court is emptied.
And the current emperor, obviously not.
If the former emperor could still be controlled by them and let him go, then the emperor who favored the empress would not be so easy to deal with!
Therefore, for a smart person, in fact, he seems to have two choices, but in fact there is only one choice!
Slowly sighed...
The right minister closed his eyes, that's all, his life will be prosperous, although he can't move forward.
However, if you cooperate well with the emperor and really make achievements, then it will be beneficial to your descendants.
Which path to choose, he had already thought about it...
At this moment, his window was broken open, and the right minister was startled. Looking around, he saw a man in black appearing there.
The Prime Minister on the right was about to shout, "There are assassins!" But the man in black took out a dragon-shaped jade pendant.
Prime Minister on the right was startled, and already understood the other party's identity.
"Long live my emperor, long live, long live." The right minister knelt down to listen to the order.
Yingwei said: "Your Prime Minister, I have ordered you to go to General Shi's mansion as soon as possible."
Prime Minister on the right was taken aback. "General Shi's Mansion?" "The old man Shi Qingshan is not here now, and the head of the General's Mansion is a woman, Shi Qingshan's wife, what is he going to do?"
However, the shadow guard obviously wouldn't give Prime Minister Right too many chances to react, he just set up the other side... and flew out with ease.
The right minister is not very old, but he is in his forties, close to fifty.
It was the first time in my life to be taken away by someone with high-strength lightness kung fu!
If Long Xiaoyuan was here, he would say that this feeling is like riding a roller coaster for the first time!
But Prime Minister Right obviously doesn't know what a roller coaster is. Prime Minister Right is a civil servant and doesn't know martial arts, so when he was "flyed" to General Shi's mansion, he almost foamed at the mouth and fainted I'm dizzy.
The shadow guard glanced at the prime minister on the right, a little at a loss, he didn't expect... the other party's body was so careless!
The right minister was brought in front of Long Xiaoyuan and Shi Qingzhou.
Long Xiaoyuan was surprised. "Right side?"
The Prime Minister on the right was startled when he heard Long Xiaoyuan's voice, and raised his head, not caring about his dizziness, he quickly knelt down to pay his respects.
Long Xiaoyuan took a look at the rather miserable Prime Minister, and hurriedly stretched out his hands to help him up.
"The right minister please hurry up, what's the matter?"
Prime Minister on the right smiled wryly. "Old ministers are old and useless, walking this little way..."
The shadow guard knelt down and pleaded guilty, "Your Majesty, this subordinate deserves to die. I didn't take into account the right prime minister's body, and came here directly with his lightness kung fu..."
Long Xiaoyuan frowned. "Go down and receive the punishment."
"Yes!" The shadow guard responded, and quickly stepped back.
You Lianlian said: "It's the old minister's own body that is useless, it has nothing to do with that..."
Long Xiaoyuan sighed. "It's because I didn't think carefully and didn't make it clear to others."
"Damn the humble minister, the emperor's saying that is a shame for the old minister." You Lian hurriedly said.
Long Xiaoyuan smiled slightly. "Okay, Prime Minister, let's not mention this for now, I asked the shadow guard to find you today because there is an important matter."
"Please speak, Your Majesty." You Lian hurriedly said.
"Qingzhou." Long Xiaoyuan called out.
Shi Qingzhou nodded, and the right minister found out that Shi Qingzhou was there, and hurriedly greeted him.
For this queen, Prime Minister Right has very complicated feelings, but at this time... don't mention it.
Shi Qingzhou asked the other party to stand up, and then turned towards Xu Yang. "Master Xu, tell me about the current situation in Quanzhou again."
"Yes!" Xu You responded immediately, and then said what he had said just now...
It turns out that the people in Quanzhou are more ignorant and stubborn than what Shi Qingzhou said!
This year's severe drought, the harvest is naturally not good.
Some people even said that God felt that the punishment was not strong enough, it was because they did not offer sacrifices!
Those people made an altar, killed their chickens, ducks, fish, etc., put them on the altar, knelt in front of the altar, begged for rain, and asked God for forgiveness.
As the county magistrate there, although Xu Yang was extremely displeased with ghosts and gods such as the altar, but there were too many people involved, and the sacrifices were only livestock, so he did nothing to stop it in the end.
Unexpectedly, after kneeling for a day, the rain did not fall.
Some people went crazy and said they wanted human sacrifices! And it is said that God likes clean boys and girls.
In some families, sons are preferred to daughters, or there are too many boys to support, so the children are sacrificed.
If the killing was only chickens and ducks, then he could still bear it, but if it was said that it was sacrificed by living people, then it was okay
Naturally, Xu Yang led the yamen servants to stop them, and arrested the two most troublesome ones.
But the people are too ignorant to think that the government is doing the right thing!
In the end, the people openly confronted the government, and they are still making that ghost altar!
Xu Yang was just a county magistrate, and there were not many yamen servants under him. He couldn't suppress those crazy people at all, so he could only ask the magistrate and prefect for help.
When such a big thing happened, the people brought by the magistrate and magistrate came late and didn't say anything.
Seeing that the people are making too much noise, they are afraid of taking the blame, although they have arrested some leaders.
But in the end, all the blame was placed on Xu Yang.
Xu Yang doesn't care about himself... But if the common people continue like this, they will be finished!
Xu Yang finished speaking with tears in his eyes, and then said: "I really have no choice but to come to the imperial city to try my luck... Your Majesty, Empress, save the people of Quanzhou!"
Xu Yang knelt down with all his body cast down.
Long Xiaoyuan pursed his lips tightly, and looked to the right.
"Right Prime Minister, do you understand why I brought you here?"
Prime Minister on the right nodded slowly. "I understand, please rest assured, the emperor, when I take office, I will definitely not let such a thing happen again... However, I want to ask the emperor for a privilege here."
"Oh?" Long Xiaoyuan frowned slightly. "Please speak to the right!"