Chapter 1043: Checks and Balances
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Appreciating the painting building, Sun Wangyue didn't care about Princess Jiaxing's jokes, and said: "This is an old joke, not made up, but a few words are lost." In the seventh course, the owner's wife put the shredded pork in the pot to fry, and suddenly she was very anxious, and went into the room to get out of Xiao Gong. But the fire on the stove was too strong, and the meat was burnt.
After sending it to him, the gentleman took a look at it and said, 'This is black and hard, like pork and not pork, and it means that the flesh of his heart and liver brother?' ’”
With such a addition, the joke of the scene turned into a vulgar meat joke, and Ripple and Xiangyue laughed and scolded Sun Wangyue more and more shamelessly.
Sun Wangyue smiled and said, "When you become married, you will know the beauty of my joke." ”
After three rounds of drinking like this, Hu Shi was very upright at first, but at this time he was already drunk, and his behavior was inevitably a little indulgent.
Even Lianyi and the others are all cute, only Xiao Yezi and Sun Wangyue are still sober.
Suddenly, Sun Wangyue seized the opportunity, walked up to Hu Shi with a glass of wine, and said, "I'm here to pay respect, I have to call Niangniang in the future, Niangniang!" Please do it. ”
Hu Shi hurriedly stood up, dizzy for a while, put his hands on the table, and said, "I can't drink!" ”
"If my sister doesn't drink it, then only my little sister will kneel and respect."
Saying that, Sun Wangyue had already knelt down, and Hu could only kneel down with him, and reluctantly drank a few sips from the cup. Suddenly, the wine surged up, and it sprayed directly on Sun Wangyue's face, and her body fell soft.
Sun Wangyue, who was caught off guard, screamed, but did not dodge in a hurry, but threw the cup and held Hu Shi with both hands.
The others were dumbfounded, Ripple covered his mouth and opened his eyes wide, and saw the drunk Hu Shi spit on Sun Wangyue's mouth and face. And the helpless Sun Wangyue endured it all, not to mention, and even remained motionless, which was amazing, admirable, and terrifying.
In a short period of time, the second daughter's face was covered with drunken filth.
Ripple hurriedly said: "Quickly carry people to the hot spring pool, get drunk so much, don't go back to the palace tonight, send someone into the palace to inform you." ”
Sun Wangyue handed over the crown princess to Gong E, and said hurriedly: "Take me to rinse quickly." Xiao Yezi hurriedly led her away.
Gong E rushed up. The scene was chaotic, and Ripples followed the unconscious Hu to the hot spring bath.
After washing, he carried the person to his boudoir, and because Hu Shi was talking nonsense from time to time, Ripple simply sat on the edge of the bed and hugged her.
Hu's head rested on her shoulder, face to face against each other, ripples gently massaged the princess's chest with her hands, and the person soon fell into a deep sleep.
Gong E had the heart to say a few words that should not be like this, but after thinking about it, she closed her mouth. They meditated on the floor in front of their beds. It wasn't until the fifth watch that Hu Shi woke up, asked someone to help her sit on the clean bucket, and asked, "What happened last night?" ”
I didn't want to ripple and replied with a smile: "It's the sister-in-law who is serving the little sister." ”
"I lost my temper." Hu Shi's face suddenly turned red. Hurriedly walked out of the screen, washed her face and rinsed her mouth, Gong'e combed her hair, and drank a small bowl of thick decanting soup. My head is still dizzy.
Ripple had already prepared and asked someone to send a bowl of ginseng soup, and Hu ate another bowl of bird's nest gruel. finally felt a little refreshed, and immediately said: "Drive back to the palace." ”
Ripple said: "Anyway, I slept all night, so it's better to get together again during the day and go back at night." ”
Hu Shi took her hand and smiled bitterly: "It's not trivial for me to be drunk, if I spread the word, then I can pay it back?" Good sister, I have to go back quickly, it will be late when it is dawn. ”
"Okay then." Ripples watched Hu take off his clothes, change into a new set of palace clothes, and send her out.
Hu asked her to sit in a sedan chair together, and first went to the gate of Qianshoutang, and the woman in charge said that the old lady had not yet gotten up. Hu said: "Thank you for me, don't dare to go in and be alarmed." ”
When I arrived at the door of Jieshoutang again, the mother-in-law who guarded the door also said, "The door of the upper room has not been opened yet." ”
Hu Shi said to Ripples: "You can thank me later, don't bother my uncle and aunt, I'll go." ”
Gather a cadre palace people, from the east alley of the Xu family to the west gate of the Forbidden City, did not alarm anyone, fortunately this is the Hongxi era, the crown princess has enough rights, otherwise there will be a big storm.
As for Sun Wangyue's wine with her, and it was in the British Mansion, it didn't matter what tricks she played, Xu Hao was bound to endorse it, and offended the entire Xu family because of this incident, Sun Wangyue was not stupid.
Back in the palace, the princess, who was drunk and relieved of a thousand sorrows, suddenly felt that the whole person was much more relaxed, remembering that she was hugged by ripples to sleep last night, although she couldn't help but be a little ashamed, but she also felt very interesting, but it was a pity that she couldn't linger for another day or two, and I am afraid that she couldn't in the future, what a pity.
She couldn't help but smile on her face, and suddenly a little palace maid ran in front of her, her forehead was bloody, and she knelt on the ground and cried: "Concubine Sun came back late last night, and His Royal Highness went to Concubine He's bedroom. ”
"Take her to heal, and don't make a noise." Hu just smiled, and the matter naturally passed.
Bathing and freshening up in the palace again, the princess changed the four-person sedan chair of the apricot yellow luanfeng system, because the snow was too late to clean up overnight, the palace people stepped on the snow road and went to the Qianqing Palace.
It just so happened that Xu Hao also came over with sparse snowflakes, stopped by the sedan chair, and saw Hu Shi walking out in a thick and heavy palace uniform, with a shocked face, he tacitly didn't say anything, and bent down slightly to make a gesture of please.
"Uncle first, please."
"There is a difference between a monarch and a minister."
Entering the Qianqing Palace one after the other, Queen Zhang seemed to have not slept all night, and her expression was a little haggard, which made Hu panic and said: "The child is guilty." ”
Xu Hao said: "You were invited to my house as a guest, what is the crime?" Let's go in and see Your Majesty. ”
"Yes!" The Hu family didn't dare to look at the imperial mother-in-law, and hurriedly entered the warm pavilion with his head down.
The queen was not annoyed, but sighed at Xu Hao: "Just hanging in one breath, yesterday His Majesty also said that he wanted to go to see the ancestors and ancestors, and he didn't want to suffer the living sin." ”
"There's no way around it." Xu Hao also sighed: "The ministers are really helpless, and the Sanfeng Immortal is probably just a legend, and it can't be true." ”
"Alas!" Zhang's sighed faintly, "The prince went to the early dynasty." He was very ambitious, and planned to raise the prestige of the cabinet, to promote the official position of the cabinet minister to the first rank, and to concurrently serve as the secretary of the foreign court. I would like to consult you, is it safe? ”
Xu Hao said without thinking: "The minister thinks it is feasible, His Royal Highness's move is very good, all the ministers are virtuous and meritorious, Your Highness can respect and trust him so much, it will definitely make the transition of the court before and after his accession to the throne, and it will also make the civil and military officials settle down." Just??"
"It's nothing." Zhang stared at him, "Say it all, what are you worried about in front of me?" ”
Xu Hao smiled bitterly: "It's just that I'm a little worried." His Royal Highness, regardless of his ambition or vision, is similar to the first emperor, benevolent and gentle and similar to His Majesty, the minister dares to assert that he must be a rare monarch who is both civil and military, but His Royal Highness has only one, loves to play! Of course, this is not a disadvantage, after all, His Highness grew up in a prosperous environment. ”
"I know that." Zhang said: "Since he was a child, he likes to fiddle with crickets, porcelain, calligraphy and paintings. I often play for most of the day, and I am impatient to deal with tedious things. Not to mention this, it is far inferior to Taizu and the first emperor, and there is no patience of His Majesty. But now he plans to reuse the ministers, thinking that the ministers will definitely help him support the government. What are you worried about in comparison? ”
Xu Hao said softly: "Checks and balances! The minister is not worried about the minister, but the way of checks and balances is inevitable. I am most worried that His Royal Highness will adopt the reuse of eunuchs to check and balance, but the ministers are not discriminating against eunuchs. is afraid of repeating the mistakes of previous dynasties, eunuchs can be relied on but must not be reused, especially on an equal footing with ministers. That will inevitably lead to the rise of the eunuch party, trying every means to deceive the emperor and interfere in the government affairs. ”
"So what do you say you should do?" Zhang asked.
"Tell me the truth." Xu Hao shook his head slowly, "Difficult!" I only hope that my sister-in-law can remind His Highness from time to time that there is never a one-size-fits-all system, and I can only take one step at a time in the future. ”
Zhang's eyes softened more and more, because Xu Laosan's words were still as unselfish as ever, and he didn't plan for himself in the slightest.
In fact, Xu Hao never thought about seeking power as early as the day Zhu Gaochi ascended the throne, his status was there, and his influence on the emperor was enough, so why bother to control the court? That is tantamount to death.
Besides, he had seen through the feudal monarchy early on, and any reform was nothing more than a delay in its demise.
As for preventing the rise of eunuchs, it is nothing more than exhausting personnel, which is the inevitable result of the development of court administration, because people have inertia and limitations, for Zhu Zhanji, he can not do the things of his ancestors must bow down and maintain vigorous energy, the Taiping Emperor also has his own personal hobbies, on the one hand trusting the ministers, on the other hand, promoting the cronies and eunuchs around him to supervise.
Banning eunuchs is an impossible task, and not letting the emperor trust the eunuchs who are easiest to control is also an impossible task, which is an unsolvable problem in ancient China.
The corruption of the Ming Dynasty, the eunuchs took advantage of the emperor's negligence or ignorance of political affairs, gradually abused the power of the emperor, and endured most of the reproaches from later generations, but the personal ethics of the ministers and endless party disputes, the corruption of the officials, the corruption of the army, and other stubborn diseases are not the cause of the historical tragedy?
Xu Hao has no way to solve it, and he can't learn the political skills of Comrade Mao Taizu and Comrade Xiaoping, people in this area are self-aware, he was an ordinary person in his last life, and he was not an ordinary person when he returned to ancient times?
It's already good to say everything you can, but what else can you do besides take one step at a time?
Why don't you just abolish Zhu Zhanji and set himself up as emperor? Let's not talk about the possibility of successful usurpation, even if you become the emperor, do you engage in the monarchy or the separation of powers, or do you abolish martial arts and play constitutional monarchy?
As long as you engage in politics, you have to face a series of endless problems, and your life will never end, ordinary people will never be able to play, and don't think that you can do everything, such people usually have only one end, and they think they are smart but they are actually big fools who are at the mercy of others, and they make wedding clothes for others, but they have no place to die.
Queen Zhang can't see the future, so she doesn't have Xu Hao's compassion, and she doesn't have too many worries, just worried about her son's lack of ability.
Zhang's heart kept her husband's words in mind, as long as Xu Laosan and Zhang Fu were there, the world would not be overturned. (The novel "Ordinary Bright Days" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! (To be continued......)