After the rebirth, the empress took the tragic script of Meiqiang

Chapter 34 Confrontation

In Ye Qinghuai's rage, no one answered, and the heads of the officials hung even lower.

She looked at Wen Xinzhong, who was closest to her, and said: "In the Spring Festival, we choose people like this. The sun is rising in the east, it is clearly setting in the west, and my luck in the great Jing Dynasty will be exhausted."

Wen Xinzhong was so frightened by Ye Qinghuai's momentum that he couldn't stand still. When he heard Ye Qinghuai's last words, he knelt down with a plop and said: "Your Majesty, please calm down."

"I'm not angry, I'm sad." She turned back to look at the ministers and said, "I'm sad that I have no good people in this great situation, and no one can help me. I'm even sadder that all the gentlemen are standing here, but their hearts are not here."

"All of you who can stand here today are important ministers of Dajing. Each of you has an important responsibility for Dajing on your shoulders. But you have the salary of the imperial court, but none of you care about the imperial court. In the third year of Chunwei

It’s only once, only a few hundred people are recruited at a time, and a Spring Festival is a waste of time for the people and money. Why do you spend so much effort? The purpose is to allow talented people to be used by the country, not to select some people to come and eat without food!”

Ye Qinghuai walked slowly and said: "I want to ask you, don't your hearts hurt when you see Jinke's Yijia like this? Aren't you worried about the future of Dajing? You are all Dajing.

My courtiers, if one day the great scenery disappears, do you still think that you can take care of yourself?"

"This is the first time I have opened a course to obtain a bachelor's degree. I got it like this the first time, and it was unanimously approved by the cabinet. If the course is like this every time, what course should I take? What kind of scholarship should I get? In my opinion, not only

The imperial examination is unnecessary, and even the scientific examination has been banned."

She spoke very slowly, but every word was very important, and she learned from it painfully, causing the whole court to fall into silence.

After she finished speaking, Chen Yuansi knelt down. As soon as the chief minister knelt down, the others also knelt down. The entire court was covered in darkness, but no one spoke.

Ye Qinghuai sighed and said: "Let's disperse the court. All the ministers should go back and think about it carefully. Is what you have done worthy of the red robe and black gauze on your body?"

After saying that, she walked away.

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In Jingshou Palace.

The emperor returned to Jingshou Palace after court today. Aunt Fanghua could tell at a glance that Ye Qinghuai was in a bad mood, so she dismissed the palace guests, leaving her alone to wait on Ye Qinghuai.

Ye Qinghuai was sitting on the couch. There was a low mahogany table on the couch, with tea and some fruits on it. Ye Qinghuai rested one hand on the low table and took a sip of tea from time to time.

, holding a book in the other hand and flipping through it.

"What kind of bird screams so loudly?" Ye Qinghuai asked after a while.

Aunt Fanghua was sweeping the house. When she heard Ye Qinghuai's question, she looked into the courtyard from the door and replied: "Your Majesty, the sound sounds like a magpie coming to announce spring to your Majesty."

"Let me drive you away. It makes me upset." Ye Qinghuai's voice came from inside.

Aunt Fanghua heard the impatience in her voice, and immediately put down the sweeping utensils in her hands, and went to the courtyard to ask people to fetch bamboo poles to drive away the magpies on the trees.

The magpie seemed to have made a nest in the courtyard. After being beaten with a bamboo pole, it only lingered outside for a few times before flying back again.

When Aunt Fanghua and several palace maids were holding bamboo poles to chase away magpies, a series of footsteps suddenly sounded outside Jingshou Palace, and then there was a commotion at the entrance of the palace.

"Why did Mr. Gu Ge come here without informing anyone first?" Li Baoquan, who was waiting outside the palace, asked with a smile, and he deliberately raised his voice.

"Is Your Majesty inside?" Gu Shihai asked directly, without being polite to him.

When Aunt Fanghua heard the conversation outside, she immediately handed the bamboo pole in her hand to the palace maid next to her, and she trotted into the back room.

Ye Qinghuai still held the book in his hand. His eyes fell on the book but did not move at all. He was obviously thinking about something.

Seeing Aunt Fanghua running in in a hurry, Ye Qinghuai raised his head and looked at Aunt Fanghua with questioning eyes.

"Your Majesty, Mr. Gu Ge is here." Aunt Fanghua reported briefly and hurriedly left the room. She quickly arranged her appearance and walked quickly to the palace gate to greet Gu Shihai.

Gu Shihai has entered Jingshou Palace. He is alone and wearing court clothes. It seems that he has not returned home since going to court. Behind him are two guards with swords. Judging from the clothes, they are not of low grade.

"My servant has met Mr. Gu." Aunt Fanghua and several other maids saluted Gu Shihai.

"Aunt Fanghua." Gu Shihai nodded to her. Then, he saw the palace maid holding a bamboo pole by the tree and saluting him, and wondered, "What are you doing?"

"Looking back, sir, the magpies are noisy in the trees, and the servants are chasing the birds away."

Gu Shihai was stunned for a moment and said with a smile: "Magpies often build nests in the forked tree. This tree hasn't been pruned for a long time."

He looked around the Jingshou Palace, and it looked a bit like a general housekeeper inspecting it. After looking at it, he said thoughtfully: "Speaking of which, this Jingshou Palace has not been repaired for several years."

After saying this, he quickly walked into the front hall.

As soon as he stepped through the door, two guards with swords stood guard outside the house on the left and right, standing straight.

Aunt Fanghua and Li Baoquan exchanged a look, both of them with worries in their eyes.

After Ye Qinghuai received the notification, he came out of the inner room and sat on the main seat in the outer room, waiting for Gu Shihai at leisure.

As soon as Gu Shihai entered the room, he saw the emperor sitting on the throne waiting for him. He was not surprised. He made a scrawled salute to Ye Qinghuai. Without waiting for Ye Qinghuai to say no, he stood on the left side of Ye Qinghuai.

He sat down on the side seat without hesitation.

Ye Qinghuai did not accuse him of his arrogant attitude. She just stared at Gu Shihai closely and said nothing.

Gu Shihai did not look at Ye Qinghuai, but looked around at the furnishings in the room, then picked up a peach from the fruit plate at hand and looked around.

"It's cold this year, and the peaches in Zhongzhou are not growing well. I have some spring peaches that have been urgently sent from Yingzhou from 800 miles away. When I return home, I will have a box sent to Your Majesty."

After saying that, he looked at Ye Qinghuai with a smile, the smile did not reach his eyes, and said: "I recently got a set of Cao Yin's four scenes of early summer. I heard that your Majesty likes Cao Yin's paintings the most. I will send it to you another day.

Come into the palace and show it to Your Majesty."

Ye Qinghuai listened to him talking quietly and did not respond, but his expression became colder.

"There is also the Jingshou Palace. It has not been repaired for several years since the death of the late emperor. I would like to say hello to the Ministry of Works and ask them to repair it for Your Majesty. If the Ministry of Household Affairs says that there is no money, I will come and give it to Your Majesty.

Pay this money."

Ye Qinghuai looked into Gu Shihai's eyes and finally couldn't help but asked coldly: "What exactly does Mr. Gu Ge want to say?"

Gu Shihai put down the Chuntao in his hand, suppressed his smile, looked at Ye Qinghuai, and asked: "Why is Your Majesty always thinking about reaching out to the emperor recently? Is it not fun in the harem?"

He looked at Ye Qinghuai, with a slight smile still in his eyes, but his face was as cold as a knife. His voice was also cold and hard, like a rusty blade, scraping across Ye Qinghuai's heart.

Although Gu Shihai came from a liberal arts school, he spent several years in the military when he was young. He even led a small team to attack the enemy camp and captured the enemy general during the Battle of Eagle's Nest City, and was awarded the title of "Flying General of Eagle's Nest".

After all, people who have killed people are different. The murderous aura and pressure released from his body at this time shocked Ye Qinghuai, and she subconsciously grabbed the armrests of the wooden chair.

"Whatever your Majesty likes, you can tell me clearly. Even if it's beauties and wine, I can satisfy your Majesty."

She caught his pressure, raised a sneer at the corner of her mouth, and asked: "Mr. Gu Ge lost a Shi Taiping. Now is he afraid of losing another Wen Xinzhong, so he came to say these things to me?"

Gu Shihai paused for a moment, then quickly sneered and said: "Your Majesty, do you really think that Shi Taiping, the Minister of Rites, was dismissed because of those few words your Majesty said in the morning?"

Ye Qinghuai wanted to retort, but was speechless.

The Criminal Department handled the case of Chunwei's leakage vigorously and neatly, which must have been under the instruction of Gu Shihai. According to Chen Yuansi's previous statement, Shi Taiping probably secretly sold the test questions behind Gu Shihai's back, thus angering Gu Shihai.

"I would also like to thank Your Majesty for this matter. If it weren't for Your Majesty, I wouldn't have seen that Shi Taiping was no longer able to do anything."

After he finished speaking, he turned his gaze to Ye Qinghuai, as if he wanted to see her angry expression.

Ye Qinghuai was indeed angry in her heart, but she still maintained her calm appearance and asked: "I would like to ask Mr. Guge, in your eyes, what kind of ministers are considered effective? These people selected this spring,

Are they all capable?"

Gu Shihai immediately replied: "What can be used is powerful. What cannot be used is powerless."

"What does it mean to be usable?"

"Just be obedient."

He answered straightforwardly, and Ye Qinghuai suddenly found it ridiculous. She sneered and said angrily: "Dajing opened a medical school to select talents, not to select your Gu Shihai's slaves!"

Under Ye Qinghuai's anger, Gu Shihai remained indifferent. He looked at Ye Qinghuai with an indifferent expression, as if looking at an unreasonable child, and said: "The imperial court does not need so many brains and so many mouths. What the imperial court really needs is someone who can

People who do things.”

Gu Shihai was obviously very different from the emperor's ideas. They had different views and did not agree with each other. Ye Qinghuai stopped arguing with him and asked with a half-smile: "Then if I am no longer useful, will Gu Ge always want to kill me?"

Replace it?"

Her words reached the edge of the cliff. Even Gu Shihai was startled for a moment and said, "I didn't say such a thing."

"Then what if I have to interfere in the affairs of the previous dynasty?"

Gu Shihai narrowed his eyes slightly, and turned his head to look directly at Ye Qinghuai. There seemed to be anger, disdain, and a bit of curiosity in his eyes.

Ye Qinghuai looked back at him without hiding. She had known Gu Shihai for several years, and the two of them had looked at each other more than once during court meetings. But at this time, Ye Qinghuai felt that this was

For the first time in so long, Gu Shihai saw her in his eyes.

For the first time, Gu Shihai saw her as the emperor in his eyes.

"I'm afraid that your Majesty is asking for trouble. The government is not a house in the harem. Things can be accomplished with just a touch of lip service. I advise your Majesty not to bring shame on yourself."

(End of chapter)