Happy Little Scholar

Li Yi felt that in the future, we must improve our knowledge of people. We should not make friends with irregular people, let alone old and irregular people.

People who discuss who is tougher than others in front of many courtiers obviously have no sense of shame and are so unseemly that they have no bottom line.

Be sure not to have close friendship with such people.

Seeing General Xue's humiliated look, Li Yi sighed and said, "I think it would be more appropriate to cooperate with the Wang family in the military ration business. The Wang family has a big business and stupid people have a lot of money...

Let's do this. This month I will give you the dividends that the two generals deserve. Since business cannot be done without mercy, we can still keep in touch in the future..."

"Haha, just kidding..." The military grain business is the family's source of wealth. General Xue's expression changed, he put his arm around his shoulders and said with a smile: "The younger generation in Kyoto..., no, we have to add years. You are several generations old. Among these people, you are the one I admire the most. We have something to discuss..."

"Old man Xue, you just cursed in a roundabout way, and now you are slandering him, do you still know how ashamed you are!" Old General Ma glanced at Old General Xue disdainfully, walked over, and patted Li Yi on the shoulder. Said: "Boss Li, you shouldn't cooperate with an ungrateful person like Old Man Xue in this kind of business. You kick the Xue family out. Our Ma family is willing to pay an extra ten thousand taels this time..."

"Huh? Old man Ma, your family is connected to this line because of me. Now you want to kill the donkey?"

"It's you, the shameless old donkey, who will be killed!"

"Boy Li, don't stop me. Today I want to let Old Man Ma know how many eyes Lord Ma has!"

"Don't worry, I won't stop you, please..."

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Li Yi silently retreated to his seat and watched the two of them pinch each other.

Unintentionally, he turned around and glanced, and found that a gaze had been fixed on him.

King Xin broke his leg when he escaped from the fire, but it was later restored by the imperial doctor. Apart from a slight difficulty in walking, it was not a big problem.

His hair was burned, but when he pulled it up and put on the crown, he couldn't see much change. At this moment, he was standing among the princes, looking straight at him, without concealing the hatred in his eyes.

Li Yi was a little confused. Wasn't the person who set fire to Prince Xin's palace a fanatical believer of the Holy Religion? Why did Prince Xin hate him so much?

Have you ever offended him?

It seems------no?

Crazy, he obviously didn't burn the house by himself, but he still glared at himself like this. Li Yi glared back with a sharp look, and King Xin trembled, couldn't help but take a few steps back, and fell to the ground.

"What's wrong with Brother Xinwang?"

Someone hurried over to help him, and at this moment, the palace door suddenly opened slowly.

The officials immediately shut their mouths and stood back to their seats. The opening of the palace door heralded the official start of the court meeting.

A middle-aged eunuch walked out of it and shouted in a high-pitched and thin voice: "I have an audience..."

Li Yi was in an extremely front position among the courtiers. He walked into the palace gate and passed through the long corridor. Apart from the sound of footsteps, there was no noise. Until he entered the main hall and looked back, the crowd was still dark. There's no end in sight.

The Great Court Meeting is the court meeting with the largest number of officials participating. In addition to officials and dignitaries from Kyoto, local officials from all over the country will also go to court. This is the only opportunity for most of them to go to court in a year. They will reward, punish, praise or demote, promote or demote, It’s all this time too.

The old emperor arrived late as usual. Li Yi noticed that by now, his originally straight spine had completely bent. It was better to say that he was leaning on the dragon throne than sitting on it. .

With his current physical condition, he is actually no longer suitable to participate in such extremely tiring occasions, but for an emperor, if he cannot even participate in the annual imperial meeting, this emperor will have little meaning. .

Every year's imperial meeting follows the same process.

Emperor Jing didn't say much this year, and his eunuchs followed the procedures step by step.

Except for the first few ceremonial contents, the one that lasted the longest and had the largest number of participants was the performance report by local officials and various ministries of the imperial court.

Officials from various places need to report the taxation, population, economy, education, etc. under their jurisdiction during the year. This is related to their promotion and assessment in the coming year. The Six Ministries have been vigorously promoting reforms this year, and naturally they must also report what they have achieved during the year. results.

Li Yi listened patiently for nearly two hours. The changes that Jingguo has made in the past few years can be described as earth-shaking. Both political economy and military have made great progress.

Of course, almost every detail of this was finalized after detailed discussions between him and Mingzhu. He had expected such results.

He casually glanced ahead and saw Li Xuan in the crowd.

Compared with the high-spirited King Qi, Li Xuan seemed a little listless. At one point, he raised his head and looked at Li Yi, his eyes slightly empty.

Li Yi looked away and stopped looking.

This is indeed a cruel thing for Li Xuan, but his life experience and status are destined to bear this. In the adult world, there is no such thing as easy. Either change the world or change yourself.

After Chongduo officials finished reporting their duties, they would announce some major events as usual, which was what everyone was most looking forward to.

All signs indicate that the position of the East Palace will be settled at this great court meeting.

After the last official left, the eunuch looked back, got a signal, and slowly turned his head, saying loudly: "Bring up the criminals of the Cui family!"

In the hall, all the officials made way for them and watched the palace guards escort several figures up and kneel in the hall.

They were very familiar with these people, because just a few months ago, these people were in the same court as them, and perhaps they had argued about something. But now, several important figures of the Cui family, who were once powerful, knelt in front of them.

The eunuch cleared his throat and read: "The Cui family plotted to murder the prince, their intentions are punishable, they have brought chaos to the court, their crimes are extremely heinous, and their actions have caused chaos among the people, which are too numerous to list... Such treacherous people, if they are not killed, it will not be enough to appease the people's anger, and if they are not killed, it will not be enough to comfort the world..."

"Cui Qingze, Cui Qingming, Cui Qingduo... and other thirteen people, their crimes are extremely heinous, they will be executed immediately to serve as a warning to others; Cui Xian's position as the imperial concubine will be taken away, and they will live in the palace forever, and they will not be allowed to leave the palace; Cui Ming, Cui Xian... and other twenty-six people will be exiled for 1,500 miles... Cui Zheng, Cui Jian..."

The case of the Cui family and others conspiring to rebel had already caused a sensation in Kyoto a few months ago. Although it has been quiet for a while, everyone can predict the final outcome of the Cui family.

But no one expected that His Majesty would announce the results of the case at the grand court meeting.

Several key figures of the Cui family could not escape death, and most of the others were exiled and could not return to Kyoto in this life. Concubine Cui was sent to the cold palace and could not come out in this life. Although the method of dealing with the King of Shu was not mentioned, his behavior was equivalent to defection. Once he appeared, he would be surrounded and suppressed by the court...

It is really a pity that the once powerful Cui family ended up like this...