Several ministers who supported Prime Minister Xie were clamoring to reject Xiaohunhou's self-recommendation letter, but when he heard Kong Hanyou's censorship, he calmed down instantly.

Xie Hu Yong and the ministers all looked at Kong Hanyou in surprise.

The Censor and the Grand Duke, the end of the Three Dukes.

However, the emperor can advise the emperor, and the subordinate can monitor whether civil and military officials, including princes, prime ministers, grand magistrates, etc., are the most feared officials in the court.

In layman's terms, the censor is an official who specializes in supervision, picks on the bones and is responsible for scolding people.

Once he catches a fault or evidence of crime, he will be fined at the least of his salary, or demoted at the worst of his official position and imprisonment.

In particular, this censor Kong Hanyou rarely spoke. Once Jian made a memorial, he often took action ruthlessly and accurately, and officials would almost certainly be demoted and imprisoned afterwards.

Let alone the officials are in awe.

As soon as he spoke, even the emperor would have a headache.

However, the morning court followed the principle of discussing one thing at a time.

Prime Minister Xie just submitted a memorial and has not yet come to a conclusion.

Logically, we must first discuss the memorial of Prime Minister Xie’s annual list. After the emperor made a decision, the ministers continued to report the memorial according to their rankings and discussed the next memorial.

How can one report another?

"What's the matter with Kong Aiqing? I'm so anxious?"

Xiang Yanran asked kindly.

Kong Hanyou took out a brocade box from his crown robe and presented it to the emperor: "I inspected Jinling City yesterday and found a piece of auspiciousness. It is the treasure of the world's first literary fortune and presented it to the emperor."

As soon as these words were spoken, the ministers in the Golden Palace were in an uproar and their faces were strange.

Good luck?!

Everyone is an official in the same dynasty and is familiar with the routines in the officialdom.

The so-called "auspiciousness" is the county magistrates and county magistrates from remote places, who were afraid that the emperor would forget that he was in a remote place and devoted himself to governing the county for His Majesty. He also asked His Majesty to be promoted to the title of office or transferred back to the Jinling Imperial City for his hard work.

He often sent some strange birds and beasts such as "grapes grow in two ears, sweet springs emerge from the ground, thousand-year-old divine turtles, black-eyed white bears, white foxes, white tigers" as auspicious objects under his jurisdiction to Jinling City, and expressed his vague expressions to the emperor for commendation.

The so-called offering of auspiciousness means asking for further progress.

The emperor naturally knew this truth.

They usually also "commend" and encourage them to prevent these county magistrates from feeling unrespected by the emperor and feeling depressed.

This kind of thing is done occasionally. If any county magistrate contributes "auspiciousness" every day, the censor will definitely study his book without hesitation, scolding him for not doing government affairs, and thinking about taking advantage of the official position all day long.

The officials in Jinling City are close to the emperor, so they don’t have to worry about being forgotten by the emperor. Of course, they will not do such things that are quite embarrassing and are easily targeted by the Censor’s Office.

However, your Kong Hanyou, the censor, is the last of the three ministers in the court, and has the second only to the prime minister and the grand lieutenant. He is deeply favored by the emperor. How could you take the lead in offering "auspiciousness"?

Could it be that Lord Kong wants to go further and rank as the chief prime minister of the three ministers?

However, Xie Hu Yong has been the prime minister for more than ten years, and the emperor is good at using him, so obviously he has no intention of replacing the prime minister.

Even if Master Xie Hu Yong could not keep it, Deputy Prime Minister Wang Su was still waiting for the rest of the matter. Master Kong wanted to be the prime minister, but he was still two steps away.

"Kong Aiqing wants to offer good fortune?"

Xiang Yanran was also very surprised.

The censor did not go to supervise all officials, so he found a "auspicious" gift in Jinling City. What is he going to do?

The imperial envoy, Lord Kong, has always been extremely powerful in cursing people. It is difficult for anyone in the court to get ahead. Could it be that Lord Kong is just calling himself stupid?

"Not bad! Please check it out!"

Kong Hanyou bowed again.

Xiang Yanran took the brocade box of golden silk and sandalwood, opened it and saw a thin book of paper. It was light pink, about a hundred pieces, and the hemp rope was bound into a book.

Exquisite paper books!

Bimo wrote the entire book of "The Analects of Confucius", "The Book of Songs", and "Chu Ci" in this book.

Xiang Yanran's eyes were lit up.

There are also a lot of hemp paper in the palace. He has tried to write it, but it is not very useful.

There are many pores of hemp paper and the ink is very easy to penetrate, resulting in the writing being blurred quickly. It is not suitable to be made into books that have been preserved for a long time.

Moreover, the price of hemp paper is too expensive, ten times the size of a bamboo slip per piece. If you are not a rich family, you won’t buy hemp paper.

He tried it a few times, but felt it was useless, so he left it aside and ignored it.

But this book has excellent texture.

The Analects of Confucius, the Book of Songs, and the Chu Ci wrote a hundred pages with a whole book, with more than 100,000 words.

What does this mean?

This shows that the paper technology has become more and more perfect and is already perfect for making books.

Just a thin volume of hundreds of pages of "The Analects of Confucius", the text recorded is equivalent to the bamboo slips of thousands of pounds and hundreds of volumes of a big ox cart.

If this paper is produced in large quantities, the imperial palace library will pile up memorials like a hill, and the simplified books can be completely replaced by paper books.

How convenient is paper instead of simplicity?

Even if the price is more expensive, the scholars of the Jinling family and aristocratic families are not short of this amount of money, so they will definitely rush to purchase and produce books.

"Dunhou paper?"

"The auspiciousness presented by Lord Kong is actually this thing."

"I... didn't expect it!"

When the ministers saw this scroll of paper, they all looked shocked and secretly regretted.

Many of them had actually heard of the sensational Hunhou Paper in Jinling City, and found it novel and even sent people to the Pingwang Mansion to ask for the Hunhou Paper, which had tried to write.

It is indeed of excellent quality and extraordinary.

However, they never regarded Hunhou's paper as auspicious. They only thought it was something made by Xiao Hunhou's fool, which happened to be suitable for writing ink.

However, Lord Kong had a unique eye and picked it out. He regarded the paper of the Hunhou as the most auspicious person in the world and presented it to the emperor with a grand ceremony.

They were immediately shocked.

His own vision seems to be inferior to the censor Kong Hanyou, who is a big class.

The grand vision and unconventional demeanor of a great scholar of a generation are very comparable to those of people.

"Good paper!"

Xiang Yanran knew the benefits of paper books, and couldn't help but look at them and said happily: "Kong Aiqing, the things you offer today are indeed the most auspicious and a first-class treasure in the world. The scholars of all over the world do not need thick bamboo slips to study.

I should have a lot of rewards. You already have a marquis, and you cannot add more titles. I will give you 100 taels of gold, 1,000 pieces of silk, silk, and 10 kilograms of spices in the Western Regions!"

Kong Hanyou immediately said, "Your Majesty, this paper is called 'Huanghou Paper', which is not made by me. I just borrowed flowers to offer to Buddha. I dare not ask for rewards. I ask Your Majesty to take it back."

Master Xie Hu Yong had never figured out what Kong Hanyou wanted to do after interrupting his report. Hearing this, his heart suddenly felt a little shocked.

Hunhou paper?

Does it have anything to do with Xiaohunhou?

He was busy with his morning court this morning and was ready to scold Xiaohunhou, begging the emperor to reject Xiaohunhou's self-recommendation letter.

Kong Hanyou actually offered "auspiciousness" at this critical moment. Isn't this a shattering of the prime minister? Even if there is a chance to be a second move?

Xiang Yanran seemed to understand something and asked in surprise: "Kong Aiqing, was this paper... made by Xiao Hunhou?"

Kong Hanyou immediately reported: "Your Majesty, this paper was made by Xiaohunhou, so it is called Hunhou Paper. Xiaohunhou made paper not for books, but for the purpose of scrubbing filth in thatched cottages. It violated the ban of our Great Chu, "not to wipe filth in the old paper." The Marquis should be severely punished for violating the law.

But the flaws do not hide the jade. No matter what the purpose of making paper is, it is always a great achievement for all the scholars in the world to make such good paper and facilitate the study of the people in the world!

Although Xiaohunhou is playboy and even offended the prime minister, he has made great contributions to making paper, which is enough to be worthy of it. Please, please include Xiaohunhou Chu Tianxiu on the list of annual lists and allow him to participate in the palace examination!"

When Xie Huyong heard this, he couldn't help but snorted and said, "Why didn't Lord Kong offer auspiciousness earlier? He deliberately made a memorial after he took out the list of the year.

I didn't have to stop Xiaohunhou from taking office, but I was just annoyed that he was ruthless. If I had known Xiaohunhou's papermaking, I would have met him to join the list of the year. If you reported this later, it would be embarrassing to me."

"Master Lord."

Kong Hanyou looked calm and bowed his hands and said: "You should not make decisions based on your personal likes and dislikes. As the chief minister, you should be more cautious. Being offended is a small matter, but you will miss the election of the court every year, which is a big matter."

In the Golden Palace, the ministers stood with their hands down.

It was quiet.

No one dared to make a splash between the prime minister and the censor.

They could not see clearly where the censor Kong Hanyou was intended to criticize Lord Xie Zhuxiang by presenting "Huanghou Paper".

Lord Kong never fails to make a move. If he starts the fire, he will definitely come prepared.

If you are not careful, there will be a battle between the Censor's Office, which has the best combat power and the powerful Prime Minister's Office, and countless people will lose their official hats.

How dare they get involved?

Xiang Yanran sat on the dragon throne, looking at the prime minister Xie Huyong and the censor Kong Hanyou in the hall, and fell into deep thought.

He didn't understand what Kong Hanyou mocked Prime Minister Xie, his real intention.

But obviously, Kong Hanyou's "auspicious" move has already added a merit amulet to Xiaohunhou.

Xie Zhuxiang could no longer find any reason to prevent Xiaohunhou from entering the list of the year.

"Print my will."
Chapter completed!