dhibooks Chapter 21 [At most coaxing Wenshe people]
Chapter 21 [At most coaxing Wenshe people]
Several handymen lifted up the flood control mold, and on a table seven or eight feet long, they pinched the shapes of hundreds of miles of mountains and cities, with holes on each side, which were the drainage outlets in the drawing.A few long bamboo sticks were inserted next to the mold and connected to a square sink, which was specially used for digging holes and collecting water.
Qi Yu stood up, "Wen Sheren will follow me to have a look."
Wen Yanzhi was following up, and from the corner of his vision, Deng Shilang seemed to be winking at the principals.
It is said that the principals of the six departments only do some errands to make a living, and it is really impossible to kowtow to Wen Yanzhi, but people under the eaves have to bow their heads and listen to their masters.Zhang Shangshu was punished by the emperor for offending Wen Sheren, and the people from the Ministry of Industry were about to fight against the enemy, so at this time, he had to silently accept Deng Shilang's look, and tried his best to stand up and stand beside the mold.
Qi Yu saw it too, but only thought he was blind.At this moment, he stood beside the mold, took a bowl of water handed by the handyman, and immediately poured it into the model of Xingzhou City in the mold.
Sure enough, the water level did not move at all, and it could not be drained at all.
"Wen Sheren," Qi Yu put down the bowl, "tell me what's going on." I'll just see if you have the insight.
Wen Yanshang stepped forward, picked up a long bamboo stick stuck on the side of the mold, and poked a hole in each row. The trenches were clear. Wen Yan's heart moved, and a thought came to his mind, "This Xingzhou -"
"Your Majesty!" Deng Shilang's voice sounded again.
Qi Yu turned his head and saw that Deng Shilang had knelt behind him at some point, so he raised his eyebrows: "Deng Shilang?"
Deng Shilang made a dignified look: "My Majesty, during the inspection by Wen Sheren yesterday, I respected the talents and did not intervene. Today, since the Emperor is inquiring, I have also given up my morals. I dare to ask for advice! In fact, The people of Wenshe inspected the ditches yesterday, but they did not pay attention to the model of Xingzhou City, I think that this model is an old thing from the time when the previous emperor rebuilt Xingzhou, and there may be some tricks that do not match the ditches."
Wen Yanzhi's head buzzed, his blood was rushing, he knelt down in front of Qi Yu, blushing and said: "Your Majesty, let me tell you, yesterday I asked when the model of Xingzhou City was made, but Deng Shilang asked me instead." Did the people of Wenshe think that everything was ready-made, so the minister thought it was newly made."
Hey, if you say you stay, you just stay.Qi Yu looked at Wen Yanzhi's straight-hearted appearance, and really didn't know what to say. He turned his gaze from Wen Yanzhi back to Deng Shilang, and felt that this old fritter's beating around the bush was really annoying, "Deng Shilang."
"The minister is here." Although Deng Shilang knelt calmly in the face of danger, his heart was beating.
Qi Yu smiled, walked closer to the mold, raised his arm and pushed the palm-sized Xingzhou City in the middle of the mold with his long fingers, and when it was slightly loose, he turned the mold over with his hands.
The water in the city model poured down, poured into the ditch below in an instant, and drained into the surrounding gutters along the ditch in an instant, without leaving a single drop.
All around were stunned.
Qi Yu held the mold of Xingzhou City upside down, hooked the corners of his lips, and his eyes fell on the oilcloth sealed under the mold, "This trick, you can only coax Wenshe people at most." Then he raised his head He raised his voice and asked, "Don't you guys know how to write the word bully?"
There was a trace of death in Deng Shilang's heart, and he kowtowed repeatedly: "Your Majesty, please forgive me. It's the minister who failed the inspection. It's the minister who failed the inspection. It's Wen Sheren's fault!" Lin Yunfan just knelt on the side and didn't speak, presumably this matter has nothing to do with him.
Qi Yu raised his hand, and threw the solid wooden model of Xingzhou City in front of Deng Shilang with a bang, as if he was not too angry, he said: "When you were promoted to be a servant last year, I also saw that you were under the governor of Liangjiang I have done practical things a few times, but now I see it, it is almost useless. I don’t want your life, so you quickly pack up and make room for useful people. My court can’t tolerate people like you.”
Deng Shilang's face was covered with a layer of gray, almost turning green, his trembling lips wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't dare, he just knelt aside and kowtowed a few times earnestly.
Qi Yu didn't bow his head, and there was always a smile on Junyi's face. He raised his hand to grab Wen Yanzhi's sleeve, and pulled him up.
Wen Yanzhi was pulled up by him in a daze, his eyes were still staring at the mold, he couldn't believe that the water control method really worked on the mold.
"From now on," Qi Yu ordered, "Lin Yunfan and Wen Yanzhi will review the water control strategies of your Ministry of Water, and make adjustments only after Zhang Shangshu has rested at home."
After finishing speaking, he pulled Wen Yanzhi who was in a daze, turned around and left.
All the way to the Huashui Pavilion in the Imperial Garden, Zhou Fu had already gone ahead to order breakfast.When Wen Yanzhi followed Qi Yu's shoulders to the pavilion, a table of exquisite side dishes was also ready.
Qi Yu sat at the table, "Wen Sheren, sit down too."
Wen Yanzhi immediately knelt down and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, it is considered a crime for me to ignore the affairs of the city model, so how can I be rewarded for my crime? Your Majesty absolutely must not."
Qi Yu picked up the chopsticks and bowl, "Although he didn't notice, it was because the people from the Ministry of Industry intentionally teased you. You stayed in the Ministry of Industry for one night, and I should give you some extra monthly salary. Each has its own system, and now I will reward you with breakfast, which is also considered to appease you."
Wen Yanzhi hesitated: "But my minister—"
"If I tell you to eat, you can eat it," Qi Yu was a little annoyed, "Why so much nonsense."
Wen Yanzhi quickly stood up and sat down.
In fact, he was quite hungry. After all, before dinner was finished last night, he was dragged into the palace by the people from the Ministry of Industry. After a whole night, Wen Yan's stomach was empty.
He looked around and saw crystal siu mai, steamed egg custard, crab roe and shrimp dumplings, amber walnuts, flower branch cakes on the table...
There was a very light swallowing sound.
Qi Yu watched from the side, and felt that the expression on the idiot's face suddenly relaxed.
I am dumb and love to eat, what should I do.
Fortunately, I don't gain weight, otherwise I can look like the old Goryeo monarch.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for the meal." Wen Yanzhi silently picked up the chopsticks.
Qi Yu smiled and hummed.
At the beginning, he thought that once the water control plan was implemented and the situation on the side of the Xian Wang stabilized, he sent this idiot to Huainan to control the water.As soon as today's incident happened, hehe, this is still the case in the imperial city. If this idiot went alone to Huainan, where the emperor was far away that day, he would probably be gnawed by officials at all levels until there were not even two pieces of clothes left.
Qi Yu's eyes circled around Wen Yanzhi's body.
——Meat is not worth two or two, worrying about people.
The matter of water control needs to be discussed in the long term.
Thinking of this, Qi Yu stopped worrying too much, and took a piece of crystal siu mai with his chopsticks.Before he finished his mouth, the servant of the Huangmen suddenly ran over from the corridor: "Your Majesty, I have something to report."
Wen Yanzhi was so frightened that he missed any of his chopsticks, and the shrimp dumplings jumped onto the table.For a while, I didn't know whether to pick it up or let it fall on the table.
Qi Yu: "..."
Can I still have a good breakfast?
Qi Yu put down his chopsticks again, took a sip of the tea at hand, "What's the matter?"
The servant of the Huangmen licked his lips and swallowed, "Uh, my majesty... Zhang Shangshu, he is on a hunger strike."
——Zhang Shangshu still has the face to go on a hunger strike? !
Qi Yu almost choked on his throat with a sip of tea, and managed to swallow it with difficulty.He put the teacup heavily on the table, "When did he start hunger strike?"
The servant of the Huangmen said: "Back to the emperor...it just started. Zhang Shangshu said..."
——The original words of Zhang Shangshu are: the Ministry of Industry is incompetent, the old minister’s students were sent to the northwest to raise horses, and now the old minister’s servant has also been dismissed and returned home to farm.Just starve to death!
"What did he say?" Qi Yu narrowed his eyes.
The servant of Huangmen muttered, picking up the key point: "Zhang Shangshu said that if you have no face, you will have to eat salary."
Qi Yu laughed angrily, "He is quite self-aware."
It's just that the ministers of various ministries up to the third rank are not as good as the servants and doctors, so they need to be extra vigilant.Now on the eve of Zhou and Lin's rebellion, Zhang Shangshu, as a member of Zhou's family, was inserted in the Ministry of Industry, Qi Yu had already investigated the details, and it would be troublesome to replace him.
It's really like a thin thorn stuck in the flesh. If you don't pull it out, you will get stuck in a panic, and someone will stick another one in if you pull it out.
Hey, wait a minute.
Qi Yu withdrew his thoughts, stretched out his chopsticks to pick up another shrimp dumpling and put it in Wen Yanzhi's bowl, and said to the servant of Huangmen: "Go and find a wooden rice bowl that Xiangguo Temple sends me for vegetarian meals every month, and give it to Zhang Shangshu Send it to say that I advised him to eat well, and ask him if he should eat or not."