Chapter 484 Confrontation in the Court

"So, everyone, what are your questions?"

Turning to the people who had surrounded him again, Zhao Zheng's face naturally no longer had a good look on it, and he didn't need to be polite to them in his words, but this was also the usual style of the officials in the Zhao Mansion, and no one thought it was wrong.

"Master, I have a suspicion!"

"Excuse me."

"Your Highness is a natural nobleman, and it is a great favor for you to show your sympathy for the people. But isn't it a bit too much to spend the night with a beggar who is so dirty and has a dirty past?"

The first person who stood up went straight to the point and secretly accused Zhao Zheng of having ulterior motives.

Unfortunately, even his teammates behind him couldn't help but shook their heads.

"I, the Emperor Shengwu, was once a beggar. Sir, do you look down on beggars? Or do you?"

There was really no need to spend too much thought on cannon fodder, and Zhao Zheng felt like he was wasting his breath if he said anything more.

boom!

"Your Highness, please understand! I definitely did not mean that!"

The man reacted immediately and knelt down.

Crown Prince Zhu Biao was naturally magnanimous and said that he would not pursue the matter of verbal taboo.

But when that person returned to the queue, everyone around him spontaneously stood away from him, and he himself looked dejected.

There will be no fools who are too stupid to sit in the court.

Therefore, the main purpose of this first cannon fodder is to serve as a reminder to those who come after him.

Although the immediate benefits are real, if you fail, the price you will pay will not be small, so you must be cautious.

"Master, I have the audacity to ask you a question!"

The first person was from the Hanlin Academy. He was a little impatient, but no one cared about him or took him seriously.

After all, you come from the Hanlin Academy, and you can only be considered an official if you really come out. If you don’t, even if you can stand in the court, you can only be a small censor at most.

There were no real censors, and all the imperial censors and imperial secretaries from the Inspectorate had not moved from the beginning to now.

So it was not until the second official's turn that people finally took things seriously.

"Please say."

Zhao Zheng also became serious because this second person was from the Ministry of Personnel.

The man did not give his name. It was a pity that he was blind in his eyes but not in his heart, especially since he was only blind in these two eyes.

The Ministry of Personnel, at least it was the mouth of the Minister of Personnel Liu Song. Needless to say, who was asking the question on behalf of?

"Master Crown Prince, I am really curious. Your novel teaching method seems to contain many truths, such as letting Your Highness Crown Prince go deep into the people and share the joys and sorrows with the common people."

"But what makes me even more curious is why you can still control the quality of the chosen ones when the Crown Prince makes his own choice?"

"Your Highness! I apologize first! It's not that I don't support the rule of His Majesty the Emperor Shengwu. It's just that people are not of the same rank, but they are of different statuses!"

"If the one chosen by His Royal Highness is not an isolated case, I congratulate the Emperor! I congratulate the Crown Prince! I congratulate the whole world!"

"All the people in the world are truly talented!"

The foam was skimmed off, revealing the broth. Compared with the previous cannon fodder, this mouthpiece from the Ministry of Personnel changed the direction of the court with just a few words.

Even turned a corner with no exit.

"Yes, if all beggars can read, then the prosperous age has already been upgraded to a holy age. How can the Ministry of Personnel still be short of candidates?"

"Could it be that the Crown Prince's tutor was used by a villain? If the Crown Prince is not a lucky person, wouldn't he have encountered danger last night?"

"The tutor of the crown prince is used to the outside world, so he took the crown prince out of the palace to teach him. But it has been a principle since ancient times that the king should sit in the central palace!"

The whispers in the court are not whispers at all.

It first entered Zhao Zheng's ear and then reached the Crown Prince Zhu Biao.

Sadly, neither of them was moved at all.

After the whisper was over, Zhao Zheng spoke:

"grasp?"

"Zhao actually did nothing. Everything was the Crown Prince's own choice, and he was followed by the Royal Guards throughout the entire process."

"Compared to a few homeless people learning to read, aren't you interested in the Crown Prince's discovery late at night?"

"When our Emperor Shengwu founded the country, he set up household registration for each person every time he conquered a piece of land. I am also curious. If people have misfortunes, there will naturally be unfortunate people in the capital."

"But how could such a group of people who not only beg but also study become unfortunate people?"

"How can you be so sure that those homeless people are born hooligans?"

Looking at Zhao Zheng, his teacher, who was standing beside him, he was clearly saying almost the same thing as himself, but no one dared to interrupt him while he was speaking.

There was a gleam of admiration in Crown Prince Zhu Yuntong's eyes.

Why is this so? My status is not bad, and my words are similar, but the effect is completely different.

"this......"

The official from the Ministry of Personnel who was asking the question fell into silence.

Zhao Zheng looked back with his dull eyes, and no one dared to look at him.

Who knows this?

Who knows this and dares to say it?

"Your Highness, Crown Prince Gao Yan, what do you think?"

"I think the officials in the court went to the government office after leaving the Fengtian Hall, and then returned to their own houses after leaving the government office. They really don't know much about it."

Zhao Zheng made a blatant attack, but no official at the scene dared to refute it, simply because he was questioning the crown prince.

Previously, they dared to interrupt the crown prince and had legitimate reasons.

But now, they were the first to raise the issue.

"Teacher, Gao Yan didn't find anything in the villager's house last night. The villager's home is self-sufficient, which fully demonstrates the prosperity of our country."

Zhu Gaozhao bowed to Zhao Zheng in shame. Zhao Zheng did not shake his head, and the officials around him also breathed a sigh of relief.

The Prince of Yan is sensible.

"How can we be self-sufficient? How much do the villagers have in their homes? How much do they have in their gardens? How much surplus grain do they have?"

"this......"

Faced with Zhao Zheng's questioning, Zhu Gaozhao was stuck.

He spent the entire night last night thinking about how to write down his thoughts.

Who would have known that the next day his insights would be presented directly to the Crown Prince, and together with the Crown Prince's memorial, they caused an uproar in the court.

"I have three children above me and two children below me. I don't know how to store grain and farmland."

Zhu Gaoyan tried hard to come up with half of the answer, then lowered his head in shame.

Zhao Zheng naturally would not blame him. Instead, he patted his shoulder comfortingly and then looked at the crown prince.

"Your Highness, what about you?"

"I?"

Feeling the gazes of the people around him and facing the attention of Zhao Zheng, Crown Prince Zhu Yuntong felt both nervous and excited.

"Teacher, the fellow villager that the student followed is all alone."

“What about before you became homeless?”

"Before I became homeless? I guess... it should be about the same..."

Why should teachers ask themselves?

Crown Prince Zhu Yuntong, who grew up in the deep palace, was puzzled.

Zhu Gaozhao and Crown Prince Zhu Biao, two bystanders who, in a sense, possessed the same top talent points, had a glimmer of enlightenment.

"Sir, the Crown Prince and the Crown Prince have finished answering for Zhao. Do you think you are satisfied?"

"..."

The official from the Ministry of Personnel who had been outmaneuvered naturally did not dare to shake his head.

Because he naturally understands the key.

"Your Highness! This is why I want to establish a bank!"

Lu Shang stood up at this time.

Now it was Zhao Zheng's turn to be confused. It was different from what was planned. Why did you stand up?

But the old man Lu Shang bullied him because he couldn't see and completely ignored his "eyes".


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