flstandardbreds Chapter 416: Wanting the Emperor to Be a Tyrant
Chapter 416: Wanting the Emperor to Be a Tyrant
Xie Ci'an raised his eyes from the memorial and stared at Gu Jianchu seriously. "If you are not sleepy, sit here for a while and keep me company."
Gu Jianchu held up her chin with one hand and stared at Xie Ci'an for a long time. She moved a stool around to the other side of Xie Ci'an and helped him grind. "Is there anything I can help you with?"
Xie Ci'an raised his eyes again and saw that Gu Jianchu was full of energy. He raised his hand and couldn't help but pinched Gu Jianchu's chubby face gently, "Achu, you are really not tired."
"Of course, why would I lie to you?" Gu Jianchu held his chin and nodded seriously.
Xie Ci'an raised his hand and took a stack of memorials from the other side and placed them in front of Gu Jianchu, "Then Ah Chu, please help me look at these memorials. Throw those unimportant matters aside and bring the important ones to me."
In the past, Gu Jianchu often helped Xie Ci'an deal with these things in his spare time, and he was already familiar with them. However, since she became pregnant, she was often sleepy and lazy at the slightest provocation. She rarely felt so energetic. Xie Ci'an couldn't bear to make her suffer so much, so he never used her again. He just handled the matters silently in this small study. She leaned on the chaise longue beside her, sometimes sleeping, sometimes accompanying him while eating cakes, which was also considered as keeping him company.
"Okay." In addition to helping Xie Ci'an read the memorials and handle some things, Gu Jianchu can also eat melons in these memorials. Because some censors have nothing to do, they always like to report some trivial matters. These trivial matters are of no help to the court, but she can always taste the melons in them. Over time, Gu Jianchu was bored and liked to help review the memorials and eat melons.
Even though she tried her best to imitate Xie Ci'an's handwriting, the strength of her handwriting was different from Xie Ci'an's, and the censors could always see it. They even talked about this with the emperor in the Chuigong Hall. The emperor's best response was to stop them from reporting these messy and useless things, otherwise they could only hand it over to the queen for handling. The censors responded nicely, but continued to send such memorials to him.
Xie Ci'an added, "If you're tired, don't try to be stubborn."
"I will definitely go to rest when I'm tired, without your telling me, Your Majesty." Gu Jianchu pursed her lips and opened a memorial in front of her.
I don’t know if the emperor knew that she liked to watch the fun, but the memorials submitted to her were basically sorted out by the eunuchs. They were sent by the censors to impeach court officials. Some of them were gossip about other people, and they even impeached a concubine.
[Tsk tsk tsk, they're actually impeaching the daughter of the Pingxi Marquis's family. They're saying she's unfilial to her parents-in-law and extremely jealous. She can't even tolerate her husband's concubine and has even gone so far as to call for a divorce. Even though the divorce hasn't happened yet, the daughter has already returned home and cut off her mother-in-law's medicine. Now the people of the capital are talking about these things after dinner, so the censors are joining in the impeachment, even saying that the Pingxi Marquis has failed to educate his daughter properly and asking the Emperor to reprimand him.]
How dare you be so bold as to ask the Emperor to reprimand you?
Although the affairs of the Pingxi Marquis' Mansion caused a sensation in the capital, the rumors did not spread to the palace. After all, since the concubines left the palace, the staff in the palace has been relatively simple, and Zhuxi has strict management. Although those palace people like to gossip, many things cannot be brought to her, so she naturally does not know.
These people say that the daughter of the Pingxi Marquis's family is unfilial and jealous, and even cut off her mother-in-law's medicine. Why don't they look at what the Pingxi Marquis's family did to cause the daughter of the Pingxi Marquis's family to do these things? If a person is not forced into a corner, they will definitely not do these things. People only do this when they are forced into a corner.
Before her marriage, the daughter of the Pingxi Marquis was very close to my elder sister. She often visited my elder sister at the mansion, bringing me some cakes every time. She was gentle and kind, and very easy to get along with. Even when she got married, my elder sister went to give her dowry. If I remember correctly, this daughter of the Pingxi Marquis married the grandson of the Minister of Personnel. My elder sister said at the time that the grandson of the Minister of Personnel was handsome, had passed the imperial examinations at a young age, and would surely be a very promising person in the future. Marrying him would be a very good match for my younger sister.
[I just don't know what this wonderful family did to cause the daughter of the Marquis of Pingyang to divorce.]
Upon hearing this, Xie Ci'an paused as he was handling the memorials.
He knew about the marriage between Pingxi Bo and the Minister of Personnel, because one year when he came back from the northwest, it happened to be the day of the two families' wedding. However, the invitation was not delivered to him, and they would not invite him, a man whose hands were stained with blood on the battlefield. He just saw the two wedding processions from afar when he was meeting friends in a teahouse.
Although the Minister of Personnel was in charge of the Ministry of Personnel, he was very poor. Even the house they lived in was bought by borrowing money from here and there, and he later slowly returned the money to Zhuangzi. Therefore, the wedding procession was not shabby, but not luxurious either. It could only be said to be ordinary and acceptable.
Gu Jianchu couldn't help but check it out of curiosity.
It would be better if we didn't check this.
This investigation really made everyone speechless.
These censors are truly blind. They only know how to report to the Emperor every day, without even bothering to investigate the truth before presenting it to him. Isn't this just making the Emperor a tyrant?
Xie Ci’an:…
I'm afraid there's something else behind this matter.
I just don’t know what happened to make Gu Jianchu so angry.
However, without Gu Jianchu's help, he would just glance at the memorial and throw it aside without dealing with it at all.
[The most important thing is that these censors are blindly influenced by rumors and have no ability to distinguish right from wrong.]
If the Minister of Personnel's residence hadn't gone too far, the daughter of the Pingxi Marquis wouldn't have filed for divorce, and wouldn't even have returned to her parents' home. Furthermore, the fact that her mother-in-law stopped using her medicine wasn't her fault. It was clearly her desire for a divorce, and she didn't want to contribute to the household expenses. They were so angry that they spread rumors about her. Now, rumors are flying everywhere, alleging the old lady of the Minister of Personnel's family was behind it.
[Even though he's sick, he's still so calculating. If he had a bit more kindness, he'd have recovered long ago.]
Mu Yao, the legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Pingxi, and Kong Lin, the second son of the Minister of Personnel, were childhood sweethearts. They grew up together, having known each other since childhood and often playing together. When they grew up, they married, a story that everyone in the capital envied. However, this story eventually came to an end.