Chapter 34 Confrontation
Under Ye Qinghuai's rage, no one answered, and the heads of the officials lowered even lower.

She looked at Wen Xinzhong, who was closest to her, and said, "Chun Wei chose such a person when he selected talents. This is where the sun is rising, but the sun is setting in the west. My prosperity and luck are about to run out."

Wen Xinzhong was a little stunned by Ye Qinghuai's aura, and when he heard Ye Qinghuai's last sentence, he knelt down with a plop, and said, "Your Majesty, calm down."

"I'm not angry, I'm sad." She turned her head to look at the ministers, and said, "I'm sad that I have no talents to choose from, and no one can use it. I'm even more sad that you are standing here, but your heart is not here."

"Everyone who can stand here today is an important minister of my great scene. Each of you shoulders a heavy responsibility for the great scene. But you have the salary of the court, but none of you cares about the court. The three years of Chunwei Just one time, only take more than a hundred people at a time, and run the Spring Festival to waste people's money, why go so hard? It's to make talented people available for the country, not to choose some people to come up for a vegetarian meal!"

Ye Qinghuai paced back and forth slowly, and said, "I want to ask all of you, will your hearts not ache when you see the top one in the present department? Don't you worry about the future of Dajing? You are all Dajing Your courtiers, if one day the great scene disappears, do you still think that you can take care of yourself?"

"This is the first time I opened a subject to obtain a scholar at the age of one year. It was the first time I obtained it like this, and it was unanimously approved by the cabinet. If it is the same every time I open a subject, what kind of subject will I take? What kind of scholar? In my opinion, not only It’s because the imperial examination is unnecessary, and even the scientific examination should be banned.”

She spoke very slowly, but every word was very important, and she learned from the pain, making Zhao Shang silent.

After she finished speaking, Chen Yuansi knelt down.Shoufu knelt down, and the others followed suit.The entire hall was knelt down in darkness, but no one spoke.

Ye Qinghuai sighed, and said: "Let's leave the court. You all go back and think about it carefully. Are your actions worthy of the red robe and black yarn on your body?"

After speaking, she walked away.
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In Jingshou Palace.

Today, the emperor went back to Jingshou Palace after the imperial court.Aunt Fanghua could tell at a glance that Ye Qinghuai was in a bad mood, so she dispersed the palace people, and she was the only one left to serve Ye Qinghuai.

Ye Qinghuai was sitting by the couch, and there was a low mahogany table on the couch, on which were tea and some melons and fruits.Ye Qinghuai put one hand on the short case, took a sip of tea from time to time, and flipped through a book with the other hand.

"What bird is singing so loudly?" After a while, Ye Qinghuai asked.

Aunt Fanghua was sweeping the room. Hearing Ye Qinghuai's question, she looked into the courtyard from the door and replied, "Your Majesty, it sounds like a magpie. It's here to announce the spring to Your Majesty."

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

Aunt Fanghua heard the impatience in her voice, immediately put down the utensils in her hands, went to the courtyard to call for someone to fetch a bamboo pole, and drove the magpies away from the tree.

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

Just as Aunt Fanghua was leading a few court ladies to catch magpies with bamboo poles, a series of footsteps suddenly sounded outside Jingshou Palace, and then there was commotion at the gate of the palace.

"Why didn't Gu Ge come to inform first?" Li Baoquan, who was waiting outside the palace, asked with a smile, and he deliberately raised his voice.

"Is Your Majesty in there?" Gu Shihai asked straightforwardly, without being polite to him.

Aunt Fanghua heard the conversation outside, and immediately handed the bamboo pole in her hand to the maid beside her, and she trotted into the inner room.

Ye Qinghuai was still holding the book in his hand, his eyes fell on the book, but he didn't move a bit, apparently lost in thought.

Seeing Aunt Fanghua rushing in, Ye Qinghuai raised her head and looked at Aunt Fanghua with a questioning look.

"Your Majesty, Gu Ge is here." Aunt Fanghua gave a short report and hurried out of the room again.While quickly arranging her appearance, she quickly walked towards the gate of the palace to meet Gu Shihai.

Gu Shihai has already entered the Jingshou Palace, he is alone, still wearing court clothes, it seems that he has not returned home after the court.Behind him followed two guards with knives. Judging by their clothes, they were not of low grade.

"My servant has met Mr. Gu." Aunt Fanghua brought a few young maids to salute Gu Shihai.

"Aunt Fanghua." Gu Shihai nodded to her as a gesture, and then he saw the court lady by the tree holding a bamboo pole to salute him, wondering, "What are you doing?"

"Looking back at my lord, the magpies on the tree are noisy, and the servants are chasing the birds."

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

He looked around the Jingshou Palace, looking like a chief inspector. After looking at it, he said thoughtfully: "Speaking of which, this Jingshou Palace hasn't been repaired for several years."

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

As soon as he stepped into the door, two guards with knives stood guard outside the room, standing straight.

Aunt Fanghua and Li Baoquan exchanged a look, both of them were worried.

After Ye Qinghuai got the notification, she came out of the inner room, sat on the front seat in the outer room, and waited for Gu Shihai leisurely.

As soon as Gu Shihai entered the room, he saw the emperor sitting in the front seat waiting for him. He was not surprised, and gave a sloppy salute to Ye Qinghuai. He sat down on the side seat.

Ye Qinghuai didn't accuse him of his arrogant attitude, she just stared at Gu Shihai closely without saying anything.

Gu Shihai didn't look at Ye Qinghuai, but looked around the furnishings in the house, then picked up a spring 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 spring peaches that were urgently sent from Yingzhou eight hundred miles away. When I return to the mansion, I will send a box to His Majesty."

After finishing speaking, he looked at Ye Qinghuai with a smile, the smile didn't reach his eyes, and said: "I recently got a set of Cao Yin's four scenes in early summer. I heard that His Majesty likes Cao Yin's paintings the most. I will send someone to give it to you some other day." Come into the palace and let His Majesty enjoy it."

Ye Qinghuai listened to him talking, but did not respond, but her expression became more and more cold.

"There is also this Jingshou Palace, which has not been repaired for several years since the death of the first emperor. I would like to say hello to the Ministry of Industry and ask them to repair it for Your Majesty. If the Ministry of Households say that there is no money, I will come and give it to Your Majesty." Pay the money."

Ye Qinghuai looked into Gu Shihai's eyes, and finally couldn't help asking in a cold voice: "What exactly does Gu Ge want to say?"

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

He looked at Ye Qinghuai with a slight smile in his eyes, but his face was as stern 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 literary school, he spent several years in the army when he was young. He even led a small team to attack the enemy camp and captured the enemy's chief general during the Battle of Eagle's Nest City. English name.People who have killed people are different after all. The murderous aura and pressure released from his body at this time shocked Ye Qinghuai, and she subconsciously grabbed the armrest of the wooden chair.

"Your Majesty can tell your Majesty what you like. Even if it's beauties and wine, I can satisfy His Majesty as much as possible."

She accepted his coercion, a sneer appeared on the corner of her mouth, and asked: "Gu Ge has lost a Shi Taiping, is it because he is afraid of losing another Wen Xinzhong, that he came to tell me these things?"

Gu Shihai paused for a moment, then quickly sneered and said, "Your Majesty really thinks that Shi Taiping, Minister of Rites, was abolished because of His Majesty's early words?"

Ye Qinghuai wanted to refute, but was speechless.

The Criminal Department handled the Chunwei leak case vigorously and swiftly, and it must have been instructed by Gu Shihai.According to what Chen Yuansi said before, Shi Taiping might have secretly sold the exam questions behind Gu Shihai's back, thus annoyed Gu Shihai.

"I would like to thank Your Majesty for this matter. If it wasn't for Your Majesty, I wouldn't be able to see that Shi Taiping has lost his strength."

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

Ye Qinghuai was really angry in her heart, but she still maintained her calm face and asked, "I want to ask Mr. Gu Ge, in your eyes, what kind of courtiers are considered capable? The people selected by Chunwei this time, Are they all capable?"

Gu Shihai immediately replied: "What is usable is effective. What is unusable is ineffective."

"What is usable?"

"Just obedient."

He answered straightforwardly, and Ye Qinghuai suddenly felt it was ridiculous, she sneered, and said angrily: "Dajing's opening of a course to recruit scholars is to select talents and appoint talents, not to start a course to select a slave for you, Gu Shihai!"

Under Ye Qinghuai's anger, Gu Shihai remained indifferent. He looked at Ye Qinghuai indifferently, as if looking at a vexatious child, and said: "The imperial court does not need so many brains and so many mouths. People who work."

Gu Shihai is obviously far from the emperor's idea, and the way is different, so we don't conspire with each other.Ye Qinghuai stopped arguing with him, and asked with a half-smile: "Then if I can't be used anymore, will Mr. Gu Ge want to replace me?"

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

"Then what if I insist on meddling in the affairs of the previous dynasty?"

Gu Shihai narrowed his eyes slightly, he turned his head to look at Ye Qinghuai, there seemed to be anger, disdain, and curiosity in his eyes.

Ye Qinghuai looked back at him without avoiding it.She had known Gu Shihai for a few years, and when the emperor and his ministers played against each other, the two of them had looked at each other more than once.But at this time, Ye Qinghuai felt that this was the first time Gu Shihai saw her in his eyes for a long time.

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

"Then I'm afraid your majesty is just asking for trouble. The government is not a game in the harem, and things can be accomplished with a touch of lip service. I advise your majesty not to humiliate yourself."

(End of this chapter)

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