The emperor said it easily and interestingly at first, but Chu Kuan said it solemnly, and Zhu Ying on the side was confused, so he simply took advantage of the emperor's unpreparedness and suddenly snatched the wooden man to see. At this look, she couldn't help but laugh and said: "Could it be that the craftsman who originally refused to carve for the emperor actually carved such a wooden figure directly according to the emperor's posture of drawing his sword at that time?" ”

Even if others have thought of such a thing, they don't dare to say it, but Zhu Ying has been used to frolicking with the emperor on the queen mother's lap since she was a child, and at this time she told the truth casually, and also used the adjective fierce and evil. But there are still outsiders like Zhang Chuan, the Duke of Qin Guo, as soon as the words came out, she realized that she was speechless, and quickly changed her words immediately.

"If this is the case, this craftsman is really a bully and afraid of the hard! Wouldn't it be nice to say yes sooner? ”

But the emperor said indifferently: "At that time, I was young and vigorous, and my temper was much worse than now, as long as I was provoked, I would be angry, not to mention that I invited me with courtesy, in order to move him, but I was rejected and driven away by others." It wasn't until I saw that the man was able to carve such a lifelike wooden figure under the threat of my sharp blade that I was truly convinced. ”

"The most rare thing is that the craftsman gave me the wooden figure directly, and then he didn't get angry at it. He said that those who hold back their skills will inevitably be arrogant, and although they dare not say that they are arrogant, they are very stubborn, just like some officials in the DPRK and China who know that they are wrong but do not repent of their mistakes, and finally end up in a battle of will. ”

"He is good at carving, but he is better at shipbuilding, but unfortunately he was kicked out of the shipyard and never had a chance, so he once swore that he would never carve for those rich and proud guys. But he still spares his life and doesn't want to die under my sword, so I'll leave you as soon as I'm done. ”

At this moment, Zhang Shou couldn't help but blurt out: "And then the emperor gave him a shipyard?" ”

"How is that possible!" Zhang Chuan, the Duke of Qin, couldn't help but laugh dumbly, "The emperor should have been sixteen or seventeen years old at that time, and he was not yet pro-government, and even if he was pro-government, the Queen Mother would not agree......" As he spoke, his voice became smaller and smaller, because he suddenly found that the emperor actually bowed his head slightly at Zhang Shou with extremely appreciative eyes.

"Zhang Shou, you guessed quite accurately, although I said that I couldn't give him a shipyard, but I had a shipyard of my own, but I directly recruited him to be a master craftsman. In the past ten years, he has built seven large ships in the shipyard, but he has lived up to me, but I don't know how much of this carving skill remains. ”

Zhang Shou just said it casually, but he didn't expect that the young son of heaven back then would really be so simple, rude and willful. He could only laugh with some embarrassment: "Minister, just guess it......"

Chu Kuan on the side couldn't help but look gloomy, he had obviously revealed the connection between today's incident and the theft case in the palace, but when Zhu Ying interrupted it like this, the focus of everyone present was suddenly crooked.

Zhu Ying is my own character, thinking about what to say, when Zhang Shou gets along with the emperor, most of the time he seems to be very relaxed and casual, and he also has something to say, no wonder the emperor who has always been unreasonable has always favored Zhang Shou, as for Zhang Chuan's attitude, in Chu Kuan's opinion, it is a bit of a suspicion of deliberately avoiding the important and trivial.

However, since he had already mentioned it, he would not dwell on it, and stood silently aside, quietly waiting for the topic to turn back. He believed that the emperor was definitely not the character who could even let go of such things gently. Sure enough, after a while, he heard the emperor suddenly ask: "The traitor surnamed Zhou in the imperial dining room is just a traitor, how can he collude with Guo Shanggong of Qianqing Palace?" ”

It was only at this time that Chu Kuan lowered his head and said softly: "Guo Shanggong was over thirty years old when he entered the palace, because she was a widow who was proficient in poetry and etiquette and had no children, so the Queen Mother selected her to the palace, and saw that she was cautious, so she was placed in the Qianqing Palace to serve, hoping to use her to control those palace people." But then ......"

He paused for a moment, and finally said in a deep voice: "Guo Shanggong got acquainted with the surnamed Zhou after Wenjun was newly widowed, and the two were originally halfway husband and wife. But after the queen mother recruited a talented woman as a female official, she chose to enter the palace for this opportunity, but promised to find a good job for the adulterer. Three years later, she gained a firm foothold, and walked through the door of Guanglu Temple and brought the surname Zhou into the imperial dining room. ”

Guo Shanggong was over thirty years old when he entered the palace, and the emperor remembered that he was only a teenager at that time, so he naturally just regarded him as a nanny. And he has a detached personality, and he can't talk about Guo Shanggong, who likes to preach when he is older, and he can't talk about much admiration. It's just that because he has been with him for so many years, he still gives people some courtesy.

However, if according to Chu Kuan's words, Guo Shanggong is deliberately entering the palace, and even mentioning the adulterer, if this is not a bad plot, who will believe it? What's more, Chu Kuan also said conclusively that the commander surnamed Zhou was actually related to the traitors of the Linhai camp!

The emperor forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, and then looked at Zhang Shou and said: "The accounts of Guanglu Temple have been sealed, you will let the selected prisoners of Jiuzhang Hall go to Guanglu Temple tomorrow to take over all the accounts, and give me a careful check, don't let go of the slightest loophole." Especially the account book about the imperial dining room in Guanglu Temple, I will check it out one by one. ”

Seeing that the emperor had already moved the real fire, of course Zhang Shou would not bargain, and immediately agreed. Although Zhang Chuan on the side is a nobleman, he has a better sense of identity with those civil officials because of his good nature, but at this time he couldn't help asking: "Once the accounts of this Guanglu Temple are sealed, the next daily operation ......?"

"All the accounts and silver coins and other things stored in Guanglu Temple are all sealed, and all expenses from now on will be listed in new accounts, which will be listed by the supervisors of Jiuzhangtang, and all expenses will be allocated by the inner treasury first, and they will not go to the treasury of the household department, so as to save those people outside from slandering in private." When the emperor said this, he suddenly asked in a deep voice, "Chu Kuan, since you said that you found out the collusion between Guo Shanggong and the surname Zhou, these two people can be taken down?" ”

Without waiting for Chu Kuan to answer, he smiled and said, "Don't say anything about people leaving suicide notes and other nonsense, what I hate most is to pour any dirty water on the heads of dead people!" ”

The emperor can have such an understanding, Zhang Shou can't help but secretly admire, because this is what he wanted to say but couldn't bear to say. However, if he didn't say it, it didn't mean that others didn't say it, so Zhu Ying immediately chimed in: "The emperor is right, dead people can't speak, and there is no excuse for any crime on his head." If a person is dead, it is not clear. ”

Chu Kuan said calmly: "The slave and maid categorically dare not use dead people to deceive the emperor, Guo Shanggong and Zhou Zhangyu are still alive now. The relationship between the two of them is not only evidenced by the letters written by the two people, but also by people. Guo Shanggong stole the wooden man, but she personally confessed, and the Tao was ordered by Zhou Zhangyu. But although Zhou Zhangyu refused to admit the matter, he colluded with the traitor, but there was also documentary evidence. ”

He paused again, and then said in a deep voice: "As for Guo Shanggong's adulterer who walked through the gate of Guanglu Temple as a palace attendant and privately bestowed important positions in the imperial dining room to himself, it still needs to be thoroughly investigated. However, the Guanglu Shaoqing who used to handle it is still alive now, but the tricky thing is that this person is the in-law of a Confucian scholar. ”

That's a lot of intricate relationships!

Zhang Shou's heart was awe-inspiring, and his vigilance against Chu Kuan couldn't help but raise a level. was able to firmly grasp the relationship between this series of characters in secret, and then it involved the former second assistant, and now the most popular candidate for the first assistant, Confucius University, just four words are not enough to summarize this person's city government!

Moreover, the things that Chu Kuan said were extremely easy to provoke anger at first glance. If this wooden figure is carved into the emperor of that era, I am afraid that it will be so violent that it wants to kill people immediately, right?

"It's just an in-law, even if it's the same clan and even a father, son and brother, the temperament will be completely different, don't involve the Confucian scholar before a thorough investigation."

The emperor gave a decisive statement, and then suddenly looked at Zhang Shou thoughtfully and said, "Zhang Shou, I don't want to use the people in the imperial dining room in the past, I heard Yingying say that you are a top foodie, not only can eat, but also can cook, and you are very good at finding food." In that case, you can find me some really good cooks, and I will give them the same salary as I do now. ”

Although it is not a high-paying poaching person, but the palace recruits a chef, Zhang Shou believes that as long as this kind of thing is announced, it will definitely be a beauty difference for countless people to break their heads, which chef is not famous? However, he was really not happy that the emperor had entrusted him with such a thing.

It's hard to reconcile, he thinks it's delicious, but the emperor thinks it's not delicious, this is already a problem, but the most important thing is that this kind of recommendation is responsible! What if some stupid guy also had a problem like that Zhou Zhangyu?

Zhang Shouzheng was struggling with how to find a way to block the emperor from his whimsical thoughts, and Zhang Chuan immediately said: "Your Majesty, since there is already a lesson from the previous experience of Zhou Zhang, this imperial chef still has to carefully investigate the roots, and let Dr. Zhang recommend it out of thin air, I'm afraid he will also feel embarrassed." ”

"What's so hard about it!" The emperor directly pressed Zhu Ying, who was about to speak, and then said with a smile, "I just need him to tell me which cook's food is delicious." As for the investigation of the eighteenth generation of people's ancestors, Zhang Qing, you and Chu Kuan will check separately. In other words, Zhang Shou only cares about recommending talents, and as for his conduct and background, the two of you take care of it. ”

Seeing Zhang Chuan Deng, he was dumbfounded, obviously he didn't expect that this exhortation would cause him a big trouble, even Zhang Shou couldn't help but feel a little sympathy for him. But seeing that Chu Kuan didn't want to think about it and bowed down to agree, he weighed it again and again, and saw that Zhu Ying was nodding desperately there, and blinked his eyes to give him a look-he felt that the eldest lady seemed to want him to agree, and finally had to make a decision.

The minister could only say...... Try your best? ”

The emperor smiled and said, "If you want to push this kind of beauty by order, you will really be sorry for the name of foodie." With this name, wherever you go, I'm afraid people will treat you as a guest, and I can't wait to take out all the skills to please you, you don't want to be cheap and sell well! ”

Speaking of this, he was obviously in a better mood and looked down at the high-spirited wooden man standing with a sword, and couldn't help but sigh a little: "I ordered Chu Kuan to look for a long time in the palace, and now it can be regarded as a complete merit and have recovered this lost property." But then again, I don't understand, what the hell is framing Lu Zhu? Did the little fat man offend someone? ”

At this moment, Ah Liu's flat voice suddenly came from outside the door: "Song Tuiguan asks to see you." ”

Zhang Chuan, the Duke of Qin, was worried that he hadn't promised the emperor yet, but the emperor took it as his acquiescence and actually settled the matter, and when he heard this, he was going to order Song Tuiguan to come in, but when he thought that the emperor was here, it was not his turn to call the shots, so he simply walked out quickly. When he turned around again, he glanced at Zhang Shou, but his face was a little strange.

He hesitated for a moment, and finally said in a low voice: "Just now, Song Tuiguan has already interrogated the guy who planted the sham, this person can't help but fight, and he really doesn't recognize the person who confessed to give him money and instructed him to do this, but the person who instructed him to plant the sham is not Lu Zhulu Saburo, the head of the Jiuzhang Hall, but ...... It's Dr. Zhang, yourself. ”

As soon as these words came out, Zhang Shou was stunned. And Zhu Ying frowned: "This is simply ridiculous, that house belongs to Lu Sanlang, can you be a person who steals forbidden things, can't you even tell the difference between this?" ”

Zhang Chuan whispered to the emperor, and then simply went out and called Song Tuiguan in. Because he informed him in advance, after Song Tuiguan entered the house, he did not raise his head at will, and after bowing and saluting, he was neither humble nor arrogant.

The messenger said that the name of the house was owned by Lu Sanlang, but in fact, it was stored with Dr. Zhang's things, and it was good for him to mix the wooden people in it. The instructor also said that he had a grudge against Miss Zhu, and this matter could be logically planted on Miss Zhu. ”

"Who is so despicable that he swept me and Ah Shou in!" Zhu Ying was so angry that she wanted to scold, until she was pulled by Zhang Shou, she stood aside angrily, but her eyes were fierce, and she said angrily, "If I want to catch that damn guy, I have to kill him!" ”

And the emperor said thoughtfully: "Since it is a collusion in the palace, then the commander should know my temper. Although it is a former beloved thing, if Yingying likes it, I will also give it to her, not to mention, Yingying likes gorgeous clothes and decorations, and she really likes the carving of wooden people, what do you want to carve my wooden people for? begged me to find someone to carve a pair for her and Ah Shou, and that was about the same. ”

Zhang Shou didn't expect that the emperor would still be interested in joking until this time, and he suddenly laughed. He was trying to appease Zhu Ying, who might be furious, but he didn't want Zhu Ying to immediately shout: "Your Majesty, this is what you said, I can remember this!" ”

The emperor immediately laughed, and then said nonchalantly: "A trivial matter, I promise you!" ”

After saying this, he bowed his head slightly to Song Tuiguan and said: "You continue to interrogate, ask about this person's previous bad deeds, and then deal with it according to law, don't be cautious because it involves these messes." As for the mastermind behind the scenes, if you can't find it, forget it, this is not within the scope of your Shuntian Mansion. ”

Seeing that Song Tuiguan hurriedly agreed, and quickly withdrew, the emperor yawned lazily, but then the words he said revealed a bit of chilling murderous aura.

"What I hate the most is those sneaky guys, I will instruct the imperial servants to investigate this matter, give Zhang Shou and Yingying a justice to you, and by the way, give Lu Zhu a justice, and the palace should be cleaned up!"

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