Please receive the decree, Sir Xiao Zhu.”
After the pleasantries, and getting back to the point, Eunuch Jia, who had come from the Western Garden, began his mission – to announce the decree.
“I, Zhu Pingan, accept the decree.”
The holy decree is a symbol of the emperor’s power, seeing the holy decree as if the emperor himself is present, no matter who is holding the decree, no matter how high an official you are, you have to kneel down to receive the decree to show your respect for the emperor. Zhu Pingan did not dare to make a fuss, leading the kneeling to receive the decree, Linhuai Marquis House of the old lady, Li Shu and other people kneeling on both sides of the position a little behind.
After everything is ready, Eunuch Jia opened the hand of the imperial decree, this is a black ox horn for the axis of the imperial decree, the decree surface is made of fine silk silk silk fabric, the colour of the earth yellow, green, blue, earth yellow is dominant, the top embroidered with auspicious cranes, the two ends of the five-clawed golden dragons up and down, flying, full of the decree of the opulence and magnificence.
The holy decree is very long, the whole decree is about more than a metre long, more than thirty centimetres wide, Jia Gong Gong two arms reach with shoulder width, the decree also drooped an arc. Can be seen at the end of the imperial decree, time to drop the pen stamped with a square “imperial order of the treasure” seal.
“By the grace of God, the emperor said: ‘I am very angry, the gas can not be stopped. False accounts, deficits, sub-silver! Taicang treasury even accumulated deficit silver to more than 1.5 million taels of silver, more than 500,000 taels of gold as much as, really is never something, I read the play when I win the wrath. You and other subjects, eat the king’s salary, not for the subject matter! If you are unkind, do not blame me for being unrighteous! Immediately set up a serious law to clean up the law and discipline! Handling in and out and checking the silver of the Treasury soldiers and silversmiths who are involved in the theft of empty warehouses, all immediate execution, wives, concubines and grandchildren are sent three thousand miles of miasma Yunnan; that is, outside the library as a wall outside the wall of the Treasury soldiers and soaps of the library, all those involved in the case should also be quantitatively reduced strangulation of the prison waiter, wives, concubines and grandchildren are exiled two thousand miles of resettlement. Where dereliction of duty, malfeasance, theft of silver of the minister, are detailed to find out, strict punishment. Since Jiajing twenty years to the present year, the successive management of the library, the library officer, check the library of the imperial history regardless of the public loyalty and integrity of the ability or not, all carry out the pursuit of punishment; the successive library officer, check the library of the imperial history of the months according to the years in office, the monthly penalty of compensation for the silver 1,200 two, deceased according to the number of halves; management of the library of the Minister of the monthly penalty of compensation for the silver 5,000 two, the number of deceased officials according to the number of halves ……”Eunuch Jia began to pronounce the decree.
Zhu Pingan listened at the bottom, through a piece of paper, you can feel the Jiajing Emperor’s monstrous anger.
This time, Emperor Jiajing’s anger is not ordinary, just like what he said in his holy decree, you are not benevolent, then don’t blame me for being unrighteous.
Indeed, the Jiajing Emperor’s holy decree is full of killing gas, as well as undisguised jerking style.
Of course, the holy decree to bear the Jiajing emperor couch gas people are also deserved, self-inflicted ……
Hey?
Wait a minute?
What does this imperial decree have to do with me?
This imperial decree seems to be a punishment decree, to punish corrupt officials to recover the stolen goods, why did Emperor Jiajing let someone come to read it to me? Did he want to praise me for my good work in checking the treasury at the back of the imperial decree? But if it is praise, there is no need to spend so many irrelevant words in front of it, right?
It can’t be ……
Zhu Pingan was a little suspicious, and his heart was vaguely uneasy.
Sure enough.
The next second, the uneasiness in Zhu Pingan’s heart was verified.
“Jiajing thirty years on June 15, no escape from the Division of straight Lang, Hanlin Academy readers Zhu Pingan was ordered to audit the Taicang, although checking the library has merit, but the king has no drama, in accordance with the provisions of the previous paragraph, checking the library of the Royal Historian, regardless of public loyalty and integrity and whether or not, all carry out the pursuit of punishment, the monthly penalty of compensation of silver 1,200, Zhu Pingan checking the library for eight days, the penalty of silver should be paid 320 two, thinking of Zhu Pingan auditing merit, discretionary halving of payment!The fine is 160 taels. Limited to one year to pay, no mistake ……”
Eunuch Jia’s voice reading out the imperial decree was as usual subdued and staccato, but in Zhu Pingan’s ears it wasn’t, as if it was mixed with a variety of ghostly choruses, and he couldn’t even hear the words that Eunuch Jia was reading out later.
“Ah?”
Zhu Pingan was dumbfounded, couldn’t help but be surprised, simply couldn’t believe his own ears, as if a pot of ice water had been poured on him in the middle of winter, every cell in his body protested.
Jiajing Emperor is brainwashed?
Jiajing Emperor is poor and crazy, right?
Jiajing Emperor’s head was kicked by a donkey, right?
Big question marks popped up in Zhu Pingan’s mind.
For a time, Zhu Pingan to Jiajing emperor full of all kinds of negative contempt, really no way not to despise Jiajing emperor ah, their own love and dedication, two-sleeved clean, but also to open the Taicang black curtains of the people, both hard work, but also merit, on this, you Jiajing emperor do not reward, praise me are counted Likui, how to punish me on it! And also punished so much, 160 two silver! This is his salary for nearly two years.
The last impeachment, was only fined one year, and now you have to pay two years of salary?
I’m weak, I’ve only just started work, and I’m going to work for you for two years for nothing.
Jiajing!
Your conscience will not hurt?
In this case, it seems that Emperor Jiajing, the boss, has a black heart that can’t be black-hearted anymore.
To distinguish between reward and punishment, this is the most basic quality of a superior! How come Emperor Jiajing can’t even understand this. It should not be ah, Jiajing Emperor counts in the history of a few genius emperors, play the power of the magic out of the gods, the ability to rule the country is not bad.
But the fact is that, he even took off his trousers in order to check the silver treasury, but he was fined two years of salary.
“Black-hearted Jiajing Emperor, return my hard-earned money.”
Zhu Pingan slandered, simply want to go to the entrance of the West Garden to pull banners and run naked in protest.
Li Shu, who was also surprised, opened her mouth wide. ……
In stark contrast to Zhu Pingan and the rest of them was the old madam of Linhuai Marquis House, Lady Linhuai Marquis and the others.
At the beginning, the old lady they thought that the holy decree is for Linhuai Marquis, the heart also thought that the saint is going to give Linhuai Marquis to increase the title, but did not think that the holy decree was given to Zhu Ping’an, not to their own son, which makes the old lady heart disappointed. ……
However, now, the old lady’s heart and happy.
This is the emperor’s punishment decree it, thanks not to their son Linhuai Hou, otherwise it can be trouble, although the decree is only fined 160 two silver, for them this kind of family is not a big deal, but although the fine silver is not much, but this reputation can be stinking ah, how to affect the future of the career ah.
The old lady didn’t like Li Shu’s mother, otherwise she wouldn’t have forced Li Shu’s father to repudiate his wife and marry another, but she didn’t expect that she would forget her mother, Li Shu’s father not only didn’t listen to the repudiation of his wife and marry another, but instead, he moved out of the mansion with her mother, which made the old lady annoyed with her father, and she also didn’t like her mother even more.
Along with that, the old lady also disliked Li Shu’s granddaughter.
The old lady also disliked Li Shu as her granddaughter.
The old lady also disliked Li Shu’s granddaughter.
Compared to the other aunts, the old madam did not like Zhu Ping’an as an aunty. The first time I saw Zhu Pingan, the old lady heart on the dirt bag simple and thick Zhu Pingan all kinds of can not see, although in Zhu Pingan after the examination of the first prize, the old lady’s attitude has changed a little, but the old lady heart more hope that the examination of the first prize is her grandson Li Yanzhou ah, even if it is the other aunts or ah, even the old lady heart have such a thought, think it is Zhu Pingan rob his grandson Li Yanzhou the first prize.
Of course, these psychological, old and spicy old lady will not show on the face.
Now, when they heard that the content of the imperial decree was to punish Zhu Pingan with silver, there was even a small trace of joy in their hearts.
Especially the sixth young miss, also deliberately glanced at Li Shu, as if in mockery saying, fifth sister, let you fool around again ah ……
